Mingus w/ Monk

[doubleM]

I was at a dinner party the other night, and these people had a cat named Mingus, and a dog named Monk. And all of a sudden, my jazz sensibilities were rattled by this guy saying that they appeared on a record together. He thought it was on a cut of "Night in Tunisia". I didn't want to chime in and say that it wasn't true (not being absolutely sure ), but I thought that he may have been thinking of the quintet recordings w/ Bud Powell. Anyway, w/o the obvious compilations, does anyone know if this ever happened? Or better yet, will those of you who certainly know help me clear this up? Am I missing something obvious, or was he ???

[Claude]

I read a discussion on rec.music.bluenote on this subject.

Apparently there are no official recordings and no bootlegs of Monk and Mingus playing together. According to the "Straight No chaser" Monk biography, they played together on the Steve Allen TV show of June 6, 1955.

Edited April 28, 2003 by Claude

[doubleM]

OK. Thanks, Claude. I thought I'd lost my shit!

[JSngry]

For those who make the Monk/Brubeck parallel, though, it's worth noting that BRUBECK and Mingus recorded together. One track - "Non-Sectarian Blues", for Columbia.

[brownie]

And Brubeck and Mingus played in the same movie 'All Night Long'

(1961, directed by Basil Dearden) shot in England. Not a good film but

very nice music.

[John L]

Not a recording, but there exists that great photo of Monk and Mingus playing with Roy Haynes behind Bird.

Those were the days.

[Michael Fitzgerald]

Another one for the time machine is the evening immortalized as "A Night At Tony's" by Gigi Gryce who appeared in Brooklyn with "the four M's" - Miles, Monk, Mingus, and Max.

Any skepticism about this can be dispelled by looking at the photos in the latest edition of the Art Taylor "Notes and Tones" book. Also, Henri Renaud was in the audience for it and mentioned it in a French magazine at the time. The gig was March 20-21, 1954 at Tony's Club Grandean.

I don't know if it belongs in the "looks good on paper" category or not, but I would love to have a tape.

Of course, another meeting by Mingus and Monk is in the Great Day in Harlem photo.

Mike

[Michael Fitzgerald]

Found another Monk & Mingus appearance - December 9, 1971 at Boston Gardens with the Giants Of Jazz (Gillespie, Stitt, Winding, Blakey). Still no tapes.

Mike

[J Larsen]

I don't know if it belongs in the "looks good on paper" category or not, but I would love to have a tape.

Um, I think we can safely say that lineup looks good on paper.