New Monk Quartet release

[romualdo]

The "Nice Life Music" label has just released the complete (?) first & second sets (almost 80 mins) of the Dec 2, 1969 Cologne concert - more titles than Kelly lists in his sessionography

this appears to be a WDR concert recording - excellent quality

Havn't heard of this label before but Matias Rinar has written the liner notes so I suspect it is part of the spanish stable

Impressed by the SQ

[tranemonk]

Web link????

[J.A.W.]

Web link????

Posting links to bootlegs is still against forum rules.

Edited November 24, 2012 by J.A.W.

[JSngry]

Who are these two guys?

NATE “LLOYD” HYGELUND, bass

AUSTIN “PARIS” WRIGHT, drums

[brownie]

Hygelun was a Berklee School of Music student , Wright was a 'skinny 17-year old kid' who was hired after Monk heard him in New York.

More details in Robin Kelley's book on Monk (pages 406/407).

[tranemonk]

Oh... okay the way the OP wrote it, it sounded like it was a legit release...

Web link????

Posting links to bootlegs is still against forum rules.

[Caravan]

Who are these two guys?

NATE “LLOYD” HYGELUND, bass

AUSTIN “PARIS” WRIGHT, drums

Monk with Hygelund and Wright in Paris 1969:

http://youtu.be/GzX6jTe4yE0

http://youtu.be/9ANF1mpvvBo

[ElginThompson]

Kelley suggests that Monk and Wright developed a friendly mentor-mentee relationship in Monk's waning (public performing) years. Quick search does not reveal a great deal about Wright since the early 1970s.

[david weiss]

Paris Wright is the son of bassist Herman Wright (from Detroit) who most of you probably know of (he is on numerous great sessions throughout the late 50's and '60s).

Paris was 16 when he first went on tour with Monk (I believe he turned 17 sometime during the tour) and I think played with him for about 6 months or so.

I believe he knew the Monk family from a very early age. While still a teenager, I think he also played with Mingus and Dizzy Gillespie. He was a talented young drummer and got a lot of shots but then dropped off the scene.

I've done some work and recording with Paris starting almost 20 years ago. I used to play some sessions with him and his father at his father's apartment and later Paris put a band together (that included me) and recorded at Rudy Van Gelder's but it was never released. Nelly Monk came to the recording session and also I think to a few gigs. She was one of the sweetest, kindest people I have ever met.

I still do a gig with Paris every now and again, always local here in New York of course.

He is still a good hard swinging drummer in the Roach/Blakey tradition.

[John L]

Speaking of Monk in Paris in 1969, Amazon has MP3s for sale that are supposedly from this concert. After I bought the download, I realized that they were from the 1964 concert instead. So don't make the same costly mistake that I made.