Thelonious Monk - At Newport 1963 & 1965 '2003

Artist	Thelonious Monk Related artists
Album name	At Newport 1963 & 1965
Country
Date	2003
Genre	Jazz
Play time	01:25:18
Format / Bitrate	Stereo 1420 Kbps / 44.1 kHz MP3 320 Kbps
Media	CD
Size	539 mb (+3\%rec.)
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Thelonious Monks 1963 Newport Jazz Festival set has been released in whole or
part on several different Columbia releases, but this 2002 reissue is the best
version yet. One finally gets to hear nothing but Monk on this edition, with the
added bonus of a previously unreleased and undocumented appearance from the 1965
festival. The earlier material, with Charlie Rouse, Butch Warren, and Frankie
Dunlop, is already very familiar to serious Monk devotees, particularly the
inspired addition (due to the suggestion of festival producer George Wein) of
clarinetist Pee Wee Russell on two songs.

Russells dissonant lines fit right in, and it is unfair to criticize him for
temporarily losing his footing when Monk suddenly ducks out of Nutty in the
middle of his guests solo, since there were no rehearsals prior to the
performance and it was also unlikely (but not impossible) that Russell was very
familiar with Monks recordings.

Russell has no problems during Blue Monk, a more straightforward blues that
seems to inspire the veteran, who is usually lumped into Dixieland or
Chicago-style jazz, even though his approach to the instrument seemed to stretch
beyond those boundaries. Monks quartet versions of Criss Cross, Light Blue, and
Epistrophy are all first rate.

Bassist Larry Gales and drummer Ben Riley join Monk and Rouse for the relatively
brief 35-minute set from 1965, with a long but impassioned Off Minor standing
out from the remainder of the performance. Its hard to say that this previously
unavailable music breaks any new ground, as Monk is documented on stage within a
number of earlier Columbia discs. While this two-CD set isnt the best place for
a newcomer to jazz to start, true Monk fanatics will want to add this release to
their libraries. 

Tracks:

CD1
01. Criss Cross
02. Light Blue
03. Nutty
04. Blue Monk
05. Epistrophy

CD2
01. Off Minor
02. Ruby, My Dear
03. Hackensack
04. Epistrophy 

Personnel:

Thelonious Monk - piano
Pee Wee Russell - clarinet
Charlie Rouse - tenor sax
Butch Warren, Larry Gales - bass
Ben Riley, Frankie Dunlop - drums