Thelonious Monk

Thelonious Monk Trio + 9 Bonus Tracks (EJC 55658)

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Thelonious Monk Trio + 9 Bonus Tracks

Thelonious Monk

Essential Jazz Classics

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EJC 144550

EJC 55658

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Thelonious Monk Trio + 9 Bonus Tracks

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CD 9,95 €

INCLUDES 9 BONUS TRACKS

This outstanding release presents the complete LP Thelonious Monk Trio (Prestige PRLP 7027), which marks the pianist’s first album in a trio format. It was recorded over the course of three sessions in 1952-54 and the pianist is backed by such luminaries as Percy Heath on bass, and Max Roach and Art Blakey on drums.

Two songs that complete the sessions but were not included on the original LP have been added here as a bonus, as well as the only three trio tracks from Monk’s otherwise quartet or quintet Blue Note dates from the early Fifties, and his complete live set at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, which was one of his very few recorded live trio performances.

PERSONNEL:

THELONIOUS MONK, piano on all tracks, plus:

[1-4]: Gary Mapp (b). Art Blakey (d).
New York, October 15, 1952.

[5-6] & [9-10]: Gary Mapp (b), Max Roach (d).
New York, December 18, 1952.

[7-8] & [11-12]: Percy Heath (b), Art Blakey (d).
Hackensack, New Jersey, September 22, 1954.
[On 8 Monk plays unaccompanied piano.]

Bonus Tracks: [11-12]:
From the same sessions but not included on the original LP.
[13-14]: Al McKibbon (b), Art Blakey (d).
New York, July 23, 1951.
[15]: Nelson Boyd (b), Max Roach (d).
New York, May 30, 1952.
[16-19]: Henry Grimes (b), Roy Haynes (d).
Live at the Newport Jazz Festival, Rhode Island, July 7, 1958.

INCLUDES 12-PAGE BOOKLET

TRACKS:

01 Little Rootie Tootie
02 Sweet And Lovely
03 Bye-Ya
04 Monk’s Dream
05 Trinkle Tinkle
06 These Foolish Things
07 Blue Monk
08 Just A Gigolo
09 Bemsha Swing
10 Reflections
11 Work
12 Nutty
13 Ask Me Now [Alt Take]
14 Ask Me Now
15 I’ll Follow You
16 Just You, Just Me [Live]
17 Blue Monk [Live]
18 ‘Round Midnight [Live]
19 Well You Needn’t [Live]

Total Time: 74:37