Art Blakey´s with Thelonious Monk

Straightahead / Mainstream Jazz
premiera polska: 2008-04-03
kontynent: Ameryka Północna
kraj: USA
opakowanie: plastikowe etui

Editor's info:
The complete original album Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk

As a bonus, an interesting live quartet version of "Bya-ya" with Monk, Blakey and Griffin and three extremely rare live versions of Monk tunes recorded by the Jazz Messengers during a TV show just a month after the studio album was made, and appearing here on cd for the first time ever!!
Although this album marks Thelonious Monk's sole recording as a member of Art Blakey's celebrated Jazz Messengers, the pianist and drummer were very close friends who understood each other well on both a personal and musical level. In fact, Blakey was present on both Monk's first and last studio sessions, spanning a period of 24 years from the 1947 quintet and trio recordings to the last sets taped in London in 1971, when Blakey and Monk were touring with the so-called "Giants of Jazz" (which also included Sonny Stitt, Dizzy Gillespie, Kai Winding and All McKibbon). In fact, all of these recordings (the 1947 sessions debuting the very personal musical conception of Thelonious Monk, this amazing 1957 session with the Messengers made during the highest point of Monk's career and the 1971 London session) are true masterpieces in their own right. And Art Blakey's presence on all of them is not purely accidental as he and Monk shared a common artistic feeling.
"This is another set combining Monk with a group DOWNBEAT not his own but that soon becomes his own."


"Absolutely indispensable Jazz" (The Penguin Guide to Jazz)

All compositions by Thelonious Monk except "Purple Shades", by Johnny Griffin.


muzycy:
Thelonious Monk, Piano
Art Blakey, Drums
Johnny Griffin, Tenor Sax
Bill Hardman, Trumpet
Spanky Debrest, Bass


*Bonus Tracks
7: Thelonious Monk Quartet:
Johnny Griffin (Ts)
Thelonious Monk (P)
Ahmed Abdul-Malik (B)
Art Blakey (D)
Live At The Five Spot, New York, July 9, 1958

8-10: Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers:
Same Personnel As 1-6, Except Sam Dockery (P) Replaces Thelonious Monk

"Stars Of Jazz" Tv Show, Los Angeles, July 29, 1957

utwory:
01. Evidence 6:46
02. In Walked Bud 6:39
03. Blue Monk 7:54
04. I Mean You 8:02
05. Rhythm-A-Ning 7:20
06. Purple Shades 7:40
07. Bya-Ya/Epistrophy 11:54*
08. I Mean You 2:47*
09. Blue Monk 2:58*
10. Evidence 3:14*

total time - 65:17
wydano: 2008-02
nagrano: New York City, May 14 (3-4) & 15 (1-2, 5-6), 1957
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