mikeweil

You are! I thought most of you would know the tune but not this earlier version.

That’s my man Jimmy Cobb on that?!?!? Oh yes, I GOTS to get this one!!!! Buy directly from the leader - I got it from him: service was fast and reliable, and he gets the most this way.

I will re-listen for this - thanks for your observations.

'f course it is! The quartet sides are my favourite Gryce and among my favourite Monk. Percy Heath is great on this one, too. If you like the large group sides, check out the Oscar Pettiford ABC sides with Gryce on board collected on this Impulse CD:

Is the stereo spread that extreme on these issues? In the box set, it is okay - I generally like the way Jack Higgins spread the band between the extremes, and the room ambience sounds pretty natural on my equipment.

That would match Keepnews' recollection that the stereo machine failed during that one take of Crepuscule. It still malfunctioned when they started Epistrophy, it seems, and they kept the fragmented or second choice take for Coltrane's solo.

A Blindfold Test. You're played music without prior knowledge about who and what it is, and comment on it and perhaps guess who it is. I think it was introduced by Leonard Feather and there is still one each in the monthly issues of Jazz Times and down beat - some are conducted in public. A group of organissimo members does this by exchanging CDRs - check the Blindfold Test Forum.

Kenny Burrell at the Vanguard - both the trio version with Richard Davis and Roy Haynes and the two Guitar Band CDs on Blue Note with Rodney Jones and Bobby Broom Mongo Santamaria at the Blackhawk Cal Tjader at the Blackhawk Wes Montgomery at Tsubo's Ellington at Newport 56 any Clarke-Boland Monk Big Band at Lincoln center 1963 !!!!!! ... just those that come to my mind right now.

This ist considerably cheaper than buying individual CDs - which never were sold at mid-price - or the complete LP collection box. Considering how many jazz albums I could buy at my small budget right now ... How far does the series of Capitol releases different from the British LPs go?

Okay - I'm going to make me a verystrong capuccino and start the day with this album .....

I know I'm asking much of you to work through two and a half hours of music and cannnot send out enough thanks that you actually do it. I love you all! I'll do the same for you any other BT!

Same thoughts here. The diversity of reactions on the same tracks is amazing in this test - but then I got it right

Re track 1: The vibist has not been mentioned by any of the guessers so far. Re track 4 I will keep my mouth shut for now ...

..... and who's singing them?

Half a century .... Born the day this was recorded:

?????? You think we only got one more?

Do I really have to say I wanna be in?

So here's a complete listing of the two sessions for the album Monk's Music in recording order as it was released on the Riverside box set, where everything available in stereo is issued in that format. I only listed the first issue. Mono takes are marked *. Reeves Sound Studios, New York City, June 25, 1957 Engineer: Jack Higgins Ray Copeland - trumpet; Gigi Gryce - alto sax; Coleman Hawkins, John Coltrane - tenor sax; Thelonious Monk - piano; Wilbur Ware - bass; Art Blakey - drums. Monk does not play on track 3. The horns do not play on track 2. 1. Crepscule with Nellie (take 1) Riverside RCD 022-2 2. Crepscule with Nellie (breakdown) Riverside RCD 022-2 3. * Blues for tomorrow Riverside 12-243 same studio and personnel, June 26, 1957 Track 6 played by the horns only. Track 13 by Hawkins and rhythm only. 4. * Off Minor (take 4) - Jazzland (9)46 5. Off Minor (take 5) - Riverside 12-242 / 1102 6. Abide with me - Riverside 12-242 / 1102 7. Crepscule with Nellie (take 4/5) - Riverside RCD 022-2 8. * Crepscule with Nellie (take 6) - Riverside 12-242 9. * Epistrophy (fragment) - Jazzland (9)46 10. Epistrophy - Riverside 12-242 / 1102 11. Well You Needn't (opening) - Riverside RCD 022-2 12. Well You Needn't - Riverside 12-242 / 1102 13. Ruby, My Dear - Riverside 12-242 / 1102 Riverside 12-242 - Monk's Music (mono) Riverside 1102 - Monk's Music (stereo) Jazzland 46 - Thelonious Monk & John Coltrane (mono) Jazzland 946 - Thelonious Monk & John Coltrane (stereo) Riverside 12-243 - Blues for tomorrow (mono) Riverside RCD 022-2 - The Complete Riverside Recordings

Tracks: 1. Snake Oil (Tony Newton) 2. Fred (Allan Holdsworth) 3. Proto-Cosmos (Allan Pasqua) 4. Red Alert (Tony Newton) 5. Wildlife (Tony Williams) 6. Mr. Spock (Allan Holdsworth) Bonus tracks: 7. Celebration (?) 8. Letsby (Allan Holdsworth) Letsby sounds much like a different version of Mr. Spock. This is out since April 2004, says Amazon.UK. It sells at midprice - I paid EUR 8,49 for it.

Well it's about frickin time! I hear ya, bruther!

Here is what Keepnews writes in the notes to the 1986 Riverside Monk box: I would have to listen to all tracks to identify mono or stereo - if I find the time I will do that tomorrow.

This may be the time when he started to prefer recording the bass directly from the pickup. I dunno. RVG's is not the best bass sound of his time. I had the same problem with the new RVG of Wayne Shorter 's "Adam's Apple", where the bass is similarly obscured. It had more prominence on the previous US CD. Same with bass drums - you hardly hear them on RVG recordings. He had strange preferences, in some respect.

I certainly did! But reading your guesses is a much reward as one could ask for.

Thanks a lot for your comments, brownie - and all the others, too!!! - very interesting read. I am not surprised that you identified some of the pieces righty away, but I am equally surprised what you didn't! Very gratifying to see some of the traps I laid out are actually working .... while others are not ... ................