The Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings (2 CD)
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Brand: RiversideEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2006-06-27
Music Label: Riverside
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Monk's Mood [False Start]
- Monk's Mood
- Crepuscule with Nellie
- Crepuscule with Nellie [Take 2]
- Crepuscule with Nellie (Breakdown)
- Blues for Tomorrow [First Stereo Release]
- Crepuscule with Nellie [Edited: Re-Takes 4 & 5]
- Crepuscule with Nellie [Edited: Re-Take 6]
- Off Minor [Take 4]
- Off Minor [Take 5]
- Abide with Me [Take 1]
- Abide with Me
- Epistrophy [Short Version]
- Epistrophy
- Well, You Needn't
- Well, You Needn't
- Ruby, My Dear - John Coltrane, Coleman Hawkins, Thelonious Monk
- Ruby, My Dear
- Nutty
- Trinkle, Tinkle
Music reviews of The Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings (2 CD)
Music Review: Some Historic Playing
Rating: 5 Stars
Make no mistake, there is some darn fine playing here. All but two of the takes have been previously released on other recordings. The order in which these takes were laid down were, according to Orrin Keepnews the producer, for the most part maintained on this two-disc set. As such, if you are like me and prefer to listen to CDs from start to finish, the repetition can be a bit tedious. So, you may want to burn your own CD with the takes you like in the order you prefer. As an historic preservation of a recording session with these giants laying down music, this is an outstanding piece of history. Not only does it represent the interplay of some of Jazz music's finest, but by stringing the takes back-to-back it also shows how fine improvisation can result in one simple song sounding so different. Yes, there are a few missteps here. Program them out after you listen through the set, or burn your own disc(s) as you like.
If editing is not your thing, get the Original Jazz Classics/Jazzland "Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane" and the aforementioned "Theloniuous Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall." I have all three and am glad I do.
This is a rare window into the working sessions of true music legends and inspired side men. A glimpse of Monk's vision and the empathy of the others to realize those visions. Historic. Revealing. Worth repeated listening.
Description of The Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings (2 CD)
Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane are universally recognized as musical demigods. The idea of Monk and Coltrane--the genius mentor and the budding genius--on the same bandstand or in the same recording studio is like Julius Erving and Michael Jordan soaring as teammates, or Jean Renoir and Francois Truffaut collaborating on a film. For an all-too-brief, magical time in 1957, Monk and Coltrane actually did work together every night as part of a quartet led by the uniquely brilliant pianist-composer Monk at New York's now-fabled Five Spot Cafe. And between April and July of that year they made the stunning music contained herein, their complete output in the recording studio. The planets seemed to align for Thelonious Sphere Monk (1917-1982) and John William Coltrane (1926-1967) when they joined forces in '57. Coltrane was poised to make a giant leap forward--and ready to learn from one of the masters, Monk. In a Down Beat interview Coltrane said: "Working with Monk brought me close to a musical architect of the highest order. I learned from him in every way." Some of those answers involved the way in which Coltrane's harmonic acuity developed, expressed via early intimations of his torrential "sheets of sound." With Monk's chords guiding him to places he'd never before visited, Coltrane was now on the path to transcendence. When he is joined by Coleman Hawkins, jazz's father of the tenor saxophone, on a couple of numbers from the epochal septet album Monk's Music, one hears the tenor's past, present, and future (e.g., the master take of "Epistrophy"). And listen raptly to the respective approaches of Hawkins and Coltrane on the two versions of "Ruby, My Dear," one of three signature Monk ballads in this set (the others are "Monk's Mood" and the ever-evolving "Crepuscule with Nellie"). There is such greatness on these two discs, so many wondrous performances (the rhythm team of bassist Wilbur Ware and drummers Art Blakey or Shadow Wilson is especially inspired), and so many fascinating stories about how these masterpieces came into being. Orrin Keepnews, who as producer of the original sessions was present at the creation of every note, has written a superb essay that sets the record straight, clears up long-standing rumors about what did (and did not) go down in the studio, and, above all, lets the listener in on how a genius mentor, a budding genius, and their gifted colleagues went about the business of conceiving a work of art.Monk and Coltrane Photos
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The 2005 release of Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall brought fresh attention to a brilliant musical partnership, though one of the least recorded. While the Monk/Coltrane association lasted only a few months in 1957, it coincided with Monk's emergence as a major figure and with the first flowering of Coltrane's genius. This two-CD set collects all of their studio meetings, including previously unreleased takes. There's the surprise trio version of "Monk's Mood," which the pianist inserted in a solo album; the Monk's Music septet sessions pairing Coltrane with Coleman Hawkins (now including the errant "Blues for Tomorrow," a Gigi Gryce tune recorded when Monk fell asleep at the keyboard); and the three superb tracks that constituted the sole studio documentation of the great quartet. Coltrane manages a virtual piano part on "Trinkle Tinkle," suggesting just how musically close the two became. Producer Orrin Keepnews provides an illuminating essay on the circumstances surrounding this essential chapter in jazz history. --Stuart Broomer
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