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See page 408 of Robin Kellley's biography for a lengthy review of the concert.

I was wondering in case more Warner box sets are reissued this way. They must have at least left out the last page listing other Rhino box sets available. The colours for the previous set's book are the same. Very dark, but printed intelligibly. The table of contents for the previous book are: Foreword (Sue Mingus) ... 5 How Tall Was Mingus? (Joel Dorn) ... 7 He Could Have Played Football For Vince Lombardi (Tod Dowd) ... 11 Man, I Feel Like Hollering (Patrick Milligan) ... 13 Could Anything Be More American (Andrew Homzy) ... 16 Charles Mingus: The Atlantic Years (Andrew Homzy) ... 22 The Need To Tell A Story (Stefano Zenni) ... 50 The Players (Andrew Homzy) ... 60 Charles Mingus Atlantic Sessionography ... 72 Atlantic Album Discography ... 77 Orginal Atlantic Liner Notes ... 86 Selected Bibliography ... 116 Production Credits ... 118

bluenote.com (15 October 2013) Blue Note Records has announced a November 26 release date for Thelonious Monk Paris 1969, a fascinating and important late-career document of the legendary jazz pianist and composer in performance with his Quartet at the Salle Pleyel concert hall in Paris, France on December 15, 1969. Beautifully captured on B&W film, the concert also featured a surprise guest appearance from renowned drummer Philly Joe Jones. Also included is a rare on-camera interview with Monk that was conducted by the French bassist Jacques Hess after the concert. Paris 1969 will be available in several formats including physical releases on CD/DVD, CD and vinyl, as well as a digital album and digital long-form video. Special direct-to-consumer bundles that include a limited edition 18”x24” lithograph poster are currently available HERE. “The 1969 Paris concert captures the power and the undiminished beauty of Monk’s music, reminding us that even as his body aged his musical imagination knew no limits,” writes Monk scholar Robin Kelley in his liner notes essay. However, Kelley also illuminates what a peculiar and challenging moment 1969 was for the 52-year-old pianist. Monk hadn’t achieved true success until the late-50s with his legendary run at the Five Spot Café in New York City with John Coltrane (a band that was brilliantly captured on the lost recording Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall from 1957 which was discovered and released on Blue Note in 2005). By the early-60s Monk’s success had peaked when he signed with Columbia Records and was eventually featured on the cover of TIME Magazine in 1964. However, by 1969, in addition to health issues, Monk’s success was beginning to wane with the emergence of rock and the resulting jazz fusion movement. His recording contract with Columbia had just come to end after an ill-advised attempt at marketing him to a younger rock audience. That disappointment was followed by the departure of drummer Ben Riley and bassist Larry Gales from his band which left Monk with two chairs to fill on short notice before his European tour. Monk eventually found two young musicians – bassist Nate Hygelund and drummer Paris Wright – to fill out the Quartet with his longtime tenor saxophonist Charlie Rouse. Luckily the inexperienced rhythm section had some time to gel before hitting the stage in Paris with a lengthy engagement in London followed by stops in Germany and Italy. By the time they reached the Pleyel the band was in fine form, which made for a triumphant return for Monk to the very stage he had made his Parisian debut on in 1954 in front of a hostile audience who felt that Monk was too avant-garde. 15 years later the situation could not have been more different with an enthusiastic audience and the concert being broadcast on television. In addition to rollicking Quartet versions of Monk classics such as “I Mean You,” “Straight No Chaser,” and “Blue Monk,” the set also includes three stunning solo piano performances on “Don’t Blame Me,” “I Love You Sweetheart Of All My Dreams,” and “Crepuscule With Nellie.” However, an undeniable highlight of the concert was when the veteran drummer Philly Joe Jones who was an expat living in Paris at the time comes from backstage to borrow the sticks from the 17-year-old Wright, providing a palpable spark on Monk’s “Nutty.”

Thelonious Monk's Piano Solo is included. From an amazon.com review: Below is a list of the 35 albums and 2 EPs included by disc and I have placed an asterisk (*) beside titles that include additional bonus tracks not issued on the original vinyl. Disc 1: Django Reinhardt - Souvenirs de Django Reinhardt Vol. 1 (10" LP) Bonus Album: Django Reinhardt - Souvenirs de Django Reinhardt Vol. 2 (10" LP) Bonus Album: Django Reinhardt - Souvenirs de Django Reinhardt Vol. 3 (10" LP) Disc 2: Dizzy Gillespie - Pleyel Jazz Concert vol. 1 - 1948 (10" LP)* Bonus Album: Max Roach - Max Roach (10" LP) Disc 3: Roy Eldridge - Roy Eldridge and his Little Jazz (10" LP) Bonus Album: Roy Eldridge - Roy Eldridge joue pour la danse (10" LP) Disc 4: Sidney Bechet - Bechet Souvenirs (10" LP) Bonus Album: Sidney Bechet - On Parade (10" LP) Bonus Album: Sidney Bechet - Ambiance Bechet (10" LP) Disc 5: Mary Lou Williams - Mary Lou Williams Plays in London (10" LP)* Bonus Album: Mary Lou Williams - Mary Lou Williams Quartet (10" LP)* Disc 6: Martial Solal - Martial Solal Trio (10" LP) Bonus Album: Martial Solal - Martial Solal Vol. 2 (10" LP) Bonus Tracks: Martial Solal - Martial Solal (7" EP) Disc 7: Lee Konitz - Lee Konitz Plays (10" LP)* Disc 8: Lionel Hampton - Jazz Time Paris Vol. 4 (10" LP) Bonus Album: Lionel Hampton - Jazz Time Paris Vol. 5 (10" LP) Bonus Album: Lionel Hampton - Jazz Time Paris Vol. 6 (10" LP) Disc 9: Gigi Gryce & Clifford Brown Sextet - Jazz Time Paris Vol. 11 (10" LP) Bonus Album: Clifford "Brownie" Brown Quartet - Jazz Time Paris Vol. 13 (10" LP) Disc 10: Bobby Jaspar - Bobby Jaspar's New Jazz (10" LP) Bonus Album: Bobby Jaspar - Bobby Jaspar's New Jazz Vol. 2 (10" LP) Disc 11: Jimmy Raney - Jimmy Raney Visits Paris (10" LP)* Disc 12: Henri Renaud - Henri Renaud All Stars Vol. 1 (10" LP) Bonus Album: Henri Renaud - Henri Renaud All Stars Vol. 2 (10" LP)* Disc 13: Oscar Pettiford - Oscar Pettiford Sextet Vol. 1 (10" LP)* Disc 14: René Thomas - René Thomas et son Quintette (10" LP) Bonus Tracks: Henri Renaud - Sextius (7" EP)* Disc 15: The Gerry Mulligan Quartet - 3e salon du jazz, Salle Pleyel juin 1954 (12" LP) Disc 16: Thelonious Monk - Piano Solo (10" LP)* Disc 17: Roy Haynes - Roy Haynes Modern Group (10" LP) Bonus Album: Jimmy Jones Trio Featuring Roy Haynes & Joe Benjamin (10" LP) Disc 18: André Hodeir - Essais par le Jazz Groupe de Paris (10" LP) Bonus Album: André Hodeir - Musique de films par André Hodeir (10" LP) Disc 19: Lalo Schifrin - Rendez-vous dansant à Copacabana (10" LP) Disc 20: Barney Wilen - Tilt (12" LP)*

Marion Barbara Monk (sister) Thomas Monk (brother) Theolonious Monk (nephew, spelling error on birth certificate)

I need to grab this before the holiday season.

And to answer the original poster's question: "Why do I feel funny when I throw out an OBI strip?" "If you strike me down now I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine." - Obi Wan Kenobi

Now here's a peculiar OBI I wouldn't want to be without. Most of the info on the OBI is not reproduced on the spartan packaging.

When I started collecting I threw out a number of DIW David Murray OBIs. What was I thinking? I love the OBIs. I always feel a bit let down when a second hand Japanese CD doesn't include one. The BN Works ones are really nice reproducing part of the front artwork. When a BN Works OBI is slightly creased, I always feel a tiny bit sad for the little guy, even if the CD & artwork are near mint.

The Mad Dogs packaging must have made no difference to you. CDs in plastic sleeve. Fold the LP sized liners notes down to a small square and put it with the CDs. Jolly good.

Is the book (120 pages) included with the set? What do the packaging materials consist of? Either way a bargain.

I've seen one episode so far. Very good. Thanks for bringing this up. Maybe they got inspiration for the choice of music from the opening credits of Boardwalk Empire (excellent 4th season, little Margaret, more Chalky).

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Now that I think of it, that's probably why I rank Etcetera and All Seeing Eye at the very top of the bunch, specifically because of Herbie's involvement in both. I absolutely LOVE his (Herbie's) playing on both, especially All Seeing Eye. I'm trying to think of other free-leaning dates with Herbie on acoustic piano, and other than these two (plus TW's Trainwreck), none are immediately coming to mind. Herbie's rhythmic approach on these free-ish acoustic dates is nothing short of fantastic, at least in my book. Did I misunderstand, or do you think of Tony Williams's Life Time and Spring as train wrecks?

For those who think the McMaster of Adam's Apple is dull compared to the RVG, this new HD Tracks release clearly shows how pumped up that RVG remaster is.

Also, the booklet gives both January 25, 1976 and 1977 as the date.

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Ben Webster LPs from my uncle's collection when I was a small child. Later on I would always appreciate it when he put on those LPs when we visited. There must have also been some Oscar Peterson and Count Basie, but what stayed with me was Ben's tenor sound.

My first Jazz CD was Steve Coleman and Five Elements - Curves of Life, not exactly an ideal choice. There was a review published in Oor, a Dutch rock magazine, stating that this was a title that might win curious listeners over for the genre. It was all a bit too much for me. A couple of years later I bought three Miles Davis CDs (Kind of Blue, Sketches of Spain, Nefertiti) and got into Miles' second great quintet's music. That was when I started collecting, bought a Penguin guide, and stopped buying rock CDs.

I first bought the single disc Nefertiti (I wanted to familiarise myself with Miles Davis and read the back artwork notes to the 1998 CD at the local record shop) and then this box set. No release was more important to me early on. My admiration for this band hasn't diminished.

I wasn't aware of that rejected date. Could it be any good? Wayne Shorter (tenor saxophone) Barbara Burton (vibraphone, bells, percussion) McCoy Tyner (piano) Miroslav Vitous (bass) Alphonse Mouzon (drums, percussion) A&R Recording Studio, NYC, October 13, 1970 tk.3 Pt. 1: The Creation Blue Note rejected tk.4 Pt. 2: B. Because - tk.5 Pt. 3: Cee - tk.7 Pt. 4: Dee - tk.8 Pt. 5: Effe - BTW, Wayne's latest, Without A Net, is also missing, but I was thinking of albums that could benefit from such a release.

(This old thread was the only one I could find that was solely dedicated to Wayne's Blue Note period) Whatever your favourite Wayne Shorter Blue Note, there's a good chance it's now available as a 24bit/192kHz FLAC download at HDtracks. A lot has been added recently. The list currently is: Moto Grosso Feio Shizophrenia Adam's Apple The All Seeing Eye Etcetera The Soothsayer Speak No Evil Juju Night Dreamer Only Super Nova and Odyssey of Iska are missing from the list!

I've tried to open my neighbour's front door several times (and, no, I wasn't drunk). Nobody noticed.