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Thelonious Monk - The Complete Riverside Recordings [Box Set]
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EAC Rip | APE (image + .cue), LOG | Back & Front Covers Included
Time: 975:02 | Year: 1986 | 15CDs | 4.63GB | RAR Recovery 5%
Genre: Jazz, Bop
With 15 jam-packed CDs and a well-designed LP-sized booklet with beautiful photos inside, this is the mother of all Thelonious Monk collections. Its supremacy is only in part related to girth and presentation, however. Historians and critics are almost unanimous in appraising the years Monk spent with the then-fledgling Riverside Records as his best. And this set catches it all, from the moments of deeply inspired, quicksilver genius to the foibles, miscues, and studio chatter (which is very minimal). Beginning in 1955 with a trio recording of Ellington tunes to the slew of live recordings that compose most of the last eight CDs, the recordings here end in 1961, with Monk leading a slender quartet fronted by tenor saxophonist Charlie Rouse, who would remain with him through many of his Columbia releases of the 1960s. Monk's trail up to his lengthy stint with Riverside began with a short tenure at Blue Note, and while those recordings (collected on the four-CD Complete Blue Note Recordings) illuminate the pianist's skewered take on bebop, sessions like the one that makes up the Brilliant Corners single CD (and that appear, of course, here) show ways Monk was doubling back on jazz styles, piling techniques from the swing era--a more moderated approach to underlying swing, for example--onto his odd voicings on chords, which arrest the ear at every turn. Where the Brilliant Corners sessions show Monk working with a rasp-toned Sonny Rollins on tenor and Ernie Henry on alto, the bands expand and contract repeatedly throughout the 30 sessions, all of them annotated by producer and Riverside cofounder Orrin Keepnews in the booklet. You can hear Monk tailoring his Tatum-esque flourishes on the solo sessions that led to Thelonious Himself and Thelonious Alone in San Francisco and then lavishing reams of reeds and brass when in 1957 he corralled John Coltrane and Coleman Hawkins on tenor saxes, Ray Copeland on trumpet, Gigi Gryce on alto sax, and Art Blakey for the Monk's Music session or when in 1959 he led a roiling ten-piece in the At Town Hall session. But the most intimate encounters are the smaller ones, with Gerry Mulligan clearly finding all manner of seams and creases to drop his flowing baritone in on the Mulligan Meets Monk session or with Monk finding an ideal chemistry with Johnny Griffin's fast, tight tenor sax lines. Then there is the microtonal poetry of a 20-minute listen-in where Monk explores "Round Midnight," giving listeners a keen glimpse into the mind of one of jazz's most singularly creative minds in history. With any one of the single CDs that together make up this package, a listener could so easily get hooked into buying all the work Monk did for Riverside disc by disc that it makes sense to take the colossal leap and scoop it all up at once--and then dig way in.
CD1:
01. It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
02. Sophisticated Lady
03. I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good Enough)
04. Black And Tan Fantasy
05. Mood Indigo
06. I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart
07. Solitude
08. Caravan
09. Liza, All The Clouds'll Roll Away
10. Memories of You
11. Honeysuckle Rose
12. Darn That Dream
13. Tea For Two
CD2:
01. You Are Too Beautiful
02. Just You, Just Me
03. Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues-Are
04. Pannonica. opening (previously unissued)
05. Pannonica
06. Brilliant Corners
07. Bemsha Swing
08. I Surrender, Dear
CD3:
01. I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance With You (Take 5. Previously issued only in Italy)
02. I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance With You (Take 7. originally issued)
03. I Should Care (Take 1. previously unissued)
04. I Should Care (Take 2. previously issued only in Italy)
05. I Should Care (Take 3. originally issued)
06. 'Round Midnight. in progress
07. 'Round Midnight (Take 7. originally issued)
08. April In Paris
09. I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
10. Monk's Mood. false start (previously unissued)
11. Monk's Mood
CD4:
01. Functional (Take 1 - alternate)
02. Functional (Take 2 - originally issued)
03. All Alone
04. Crepuscule With Nellie (Take 1 on June 25 - previously unissued)
05. Crepuscule With Nellie - breakdown (previously unissued)
06. Blues For Tomorrow
07. Off Minor (Take 4 - alternate)
08. Off Minor (Take 5 - originally issued)
09. Abide With Me
10. Crepuscule With Nellie (Takes 4,5 - previously unissued)
11. Crepuscule With Nellie (Take 6 - originally issued)
CD5:
01. Epistrophy - fragment
02. Epistrophy
03. Well, You Needn't - opening (previously unissued)
04. Well, You Needn't
05. Ruby, My Dear (with Coleman Hawkins)
06. Ruby, My Dear (with John Coltrane)
07. Nutty
08. Trinkle, Tinkle
09. Straight, No Chaser (Take 1 - alternate)
10. Straight, No Chaser (Take 3 - originally issued)
11. Rhythm-A-Ning
CD6:
01. I Mean You (Take 1 - alternate)
02. I Mean You (Take 2 - alternate)
03. I Mean You (Take 4 - originally issued)
04. 'Round Midnight
05. Decidedly (Take 4 - originally issued stereo take)
06. Decidedly (Take 5 - originally issued monaural take)
07. Sweet and Lovely
08. Coming On The Hudson
09. In Orbit
10. One Foot In The Gutter
CD7:
01. Trust in Me
02. Let's Cool One
03. Pea Eye
04. Argentia
05. Moonlight Fiesta
06. Buck's Business
07. Flugelin' The Blues
08. Very Near Blue
09. Evidence (previously unissued)
10. Blues Five Spot
11. In Walked Bud,Epistrophy (theme)
CD8:
01. unidentified solo piano
02. 'Round Midnight
03. Bye-Ya, Epistrophy (theme) (previously unissued)
04. Light Blue
05. Coming On The Hudson
06. Rhythm-A-Ning
07. Just a Gigolo
08. Blue Monk
09. Evidence
10. Epistrophy (theme)
CD9:
01. Nutty
02. Blues Five Spot
03. Let's Cool One
04. In Walked Bud
05. Misterioso
06. Epistrophy (theme - #2)
07. In Walked Bud
08. Blue Monk
CD10:
01. Rhythm-A-Ning
02. Monk's Mood
03. Friday The 13th
04. Little Rootie Tootie
05. Off Minor
06. Thelonious
07. Crepuscule with Nellie
08. Little Rootie Tootie - encore
CD11:
01 - Played Twice (Take 1 - 2nd alternate)
02 - Played Twice (Take 2 - alternate)
03 - Played Twice (Take 3 - originally issued)
04 - Straight, No Chaser
05 - Ask Me Now
06 - I Mean You
07 - Jackie-ing
08 - Round Lights
09 - Pannonica
10 - Blue Monk
CD12:
01 - Ruby, My Dear
02 - There's Danger In Your Eyes, Cherie (Take 1 - alternate)
03 - There's Danger In Your Eyes, Cherie (Take 2 - originally issued)
04 - Everything Happens To Me
05 - Reflections
06 - Remember
07 - Bluehawk
08 - You Took The Words Right Out Of My Heart
09 - San Francisco Holiday (previously unissued)
10 - Just You, Just Me (previously unissued)
11 - 'Round Midnight (previously unissued)
12 - San Francisco Holiday (Take 2 - alternate)
CD13:
01. I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
02. Evidence
03. Epistrophy (theme)
04. Epistrophy
05. Four In One (take 1)
06. Let's Call This
07. 'Round Midnight
08. San Francisco Holiday (Worry Later) (take 3)
09. Four In One (take 2)
10. Epistrophy (theme)
CD14:
01. Well, You Needn't
02. Crepuscule With Nellie
03. Jackie-ing
04. Body And Soul
05. Off Minor
06. April In Paris
07. I Mean You
08. Rhythm-A-Ning
09. Just A Gigolo
CD15:
01. Hackensack
02. Epistropy
03. I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
04. Jackie-ing
05. Body and Soul
06. Straight, No Chaser
07. Crepescule With Nellie
08. Bemsha Swing
09. San Francisco Holiday
10. Rhythm-a-ning
11. Epistrophy
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