mikeweil

?????? 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 ... ................

Great to hear you like it!

You didn't happen to have a digital camera handy?

Let's call this morbus organissimus ...

He is one one of Roney's albums, I found out, alongside Seamus Blake. Other Steve Hall sideman dates are with Bob Mover and Peter Holts (with Mover on it, too).

In this case, rather Eric Kleptomaniac.

These are exactly my thoughts on how a tune of that caliber should be treated, BTW.

Wow! That's a helluva compliment! You got four tracks correct, one more in part, the rest is ..... very interesting as a comment to the music - I will explain later. Does that track on disc 1 make you hold back your guesses until you have identified it?

Looking forward to getting this during the next days. The articles in various magazines watered my mouth, your comments even more so. Very fitting remark about the Coltrane clones Jim!

I saw Kim Clarke in double bass backing Joe Henderson on his European tour with all-female backing (Renée Rosnes and Sylvia Cuenca were on piano and drums, all excellent). She was five months pregnant at the time and had to reach even wider over her belly for the bass strings, making it a little uncomfortable, but she swung the band! AFAIR she was with Material or some Jazz/Funk group of musicians as well etc. etc. - one of many underrecorded female jazz musicians.

And I was close to bet my hat you would start guessing on disc one ... What's on tonight, poor fellow .... At least someone else has a chance to identify some things before you do.

I guess you ask Noal Cohen (link in my post above for this) - I discussed details on this with him and sent him all details I had, and sold my LPs since then. As the bootlegs often mixed in tracks from other sessions, and edited them wildly, only a note-for-note comparison would yield reliable results.

The LoneHill reissues now add up to six CDs each containing two LPs - they call that the John Graas Project. Scroll down on their new releases page.

Most musicians - and fans alike - expect funk to have repeating bass lines - ostinatos. Miroslav's bass lines were funky, but he changed the all the time, no two bars are played exactly the same way, even on his funky Shepherd album pictured above. I have found out many people have difficulties relating to that concept of playing all variations of the bass riff - I find it thrilling. But many musicians have trouble keeping the groove when you start to play variations of funky stuff in the ryhthm section. Guess they have to watch out too much and have to keep up their own rhythmic senses, and cannot slip that easily into their trance-like state of mind they like to improvise in.

I like it - the classical attributaries of the artist, like on an autoportrait of a Renaissance painter: a skull, a book, a candle, a mortar ...

They just look at the surface - there it sounds odd. At least not like you are taught in music school. You have to dig inside the music to love Monk - but then it is eternally rewarding. Blue Monk sounds easy - just a blues tune. But to have it really say something .... I love Monk's first recording on Prestige, the live version with Griffin on Riverside, and Abbey Lincoln's. Most people play it too fast.

Yeah, Seamus Blake is nice! But does anybody here know anything about one Steve Hall - he played tenor alongside Blake on Kevin Hays' 1995 Blue Note CD "go round". He has a fantsatic, huge sound - but I can't seem to find any other recording?!?!