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The studio and live recording sessions that Thelonious Monk cut during his six-year stay at the Riverside label are compiled over the 15 discs in the Complete Riverside Recordings. This middle era -- between his early sides for Prestige and the final ones for Columbia -- is generally considered Monk's most ingenious and creative period. The sessions are presented in chronological order, accurately charting the progression and diversions of one of the most genuinely enigmatic figures in popular music. The Complete Riverside Recordings explores Monk's genius with a certain degree of real-time analysis that simply listening to each of the individual albums from this era lacks. This is due in part to the 14 additional performances exclusive to this collection. However, a more satisfying level of assessing Monk's indelible marks of extemporaneous perfection can be heard within his prankster-like sense of timing or innate penchant for sophisticated arrangements. Among the sessions captured on this exhaustive set are the Duke Ellington sides and the Sonny Rollins era (which yielded the genre-defining Brilliant Corners), as well as meetings with Coleman Hawkins, John Coltrane, and Gerry Mulligan. Additionally, the entire Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall performance is presented just as it went down -- with solo and quartet sets intact. Accompanying the discs is a 28-page full-size (12"x12") booklet that is indispensable in dispelling myths and making sense of the convoluted and seemingly random order in which many of these recordings have been previously issued. It also contains a complete sessionography annotated by Monk's producer during this era, Orrin Keepnews. This is a convenient, albeit pricey way to obtain all of this remarkable music.
© Lindsay Planer /TiVo
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Thelonious Monk, MainArtist - Irving Mills, ComposerLyricist - Orrin Keepnews, Producer - Bill Grauer, Producer
℗ 1955 Riverside, Inc.
Thelonious Monk, MainArtist - Mitchell Parish, ComposerLyricist - Irving Mills, ComposerLyricist - Orrin Keepnews, Producer - Bill Grauer, Producer
℗ 1955 Riverside, Inc.
Thelonious Monk, MainArtist - Paul Francis Webster, ComposerLyricist - Orrin Keepnews, Producer - Bill Grauer, Producer
℗ 1955 Riverside, Inc.
Thelonious Monk, MainArtist - Bubber Miley, ComposerLyricist - Orrin Keepnews, Producer - Bill Grauer, Producer
℗ 1955 Riverside, Inc.
Barney Bigard, Composer - Thelonious Monk, MainArtist - Irving Mills, Composer - Orrin Keepnews, Producer - Bill Grauer, Producer
℗ 1955 Riverside, Inc.
Thelonious Monk, MainArtist - Irving Mills, ComposerLyricist - HENRY NEMO, ComposerLyricist - Orrin Keepnews, Producer - John Redmond, ComposerLyricist - Bill Grauer, Producer
℗ 1955 Riverside, Inc.
Duke Ellington, ComposerLyricist - Thelonious Monk, MainArtist - Irving Mills, ComposerLyricist - Eddie Delange, ComposerLyricist - Orrin Keepnews, Producer - Bill Grauer, Producer
℗ 1955 Riverside, Inc.
Thelonious Monk, MainArtist - Irving Mills, ComposerLyricist - Juan Tizol, ComposerLyricist - Orrin Keepnews, Producer - Bill Grauer, Producer
℗ 1955 Riverside, Inc.
George Gershwin, ComposerLyricist - Ira Gershwin, ComposerLyricist - Thelonious Monk, MainArtist - Gus Kahn, ComposerLyricist - Orrin Keepnews, Producer
℗ 1956 Fantasy, Inc.
Thelonious Monk, MainArtist - Andy Razaf, ComposerLyricist - Eubie Blake, ComposerLyricist - Orrin Keepnews, Producer
℗ 1956 Fantasy, Inc.
Thelonious Monk, MainArtist - Andy Razaf, ComposerLyricist - Fats Waller, ComposerLyricist - Orrin Keepnews, Producer
℗ 1956 Fantasy, Inc.
Thelonious Monk, MainArtist - Jimmy Van Heusen, ComposerLyricist - Orrin Keepnews, Producer - Edgar De Lang, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1956 Fantasy, Inc.
Thelonious Monk, MainArtist - Vincent Youmans, ComposerLyricist - Irving Caesar, ComposerLyricist - Orrin Keepnews, Producer
℗ 1956 Fantasy, Inc.
DISC 2
Thelonious Monk, MainArtist - Richard Rodgers, ComposerLyricist - Lorenz Hart, ComposerLyricist - Orrin Keepnews, Producer
℗ 1956 Fantasy, Inc.
Thelonious Monk, MainArtist - Raymond Klages, ComposerLyricist - Jesse Greer, ComposerLyricist - Orrin Keepnews, Producer
℗ 1956 Fantasy, Inc.
Thelonious Monk, Composer, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Oscar Pettiford, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Ernie Henry, Alto Saxophone, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Clark Terry, FeaturedArtist - Sonny Rollins, Tenor Saxophone, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Max Roach, Drum, AssociatedPerformer - Orrin Keepnews, Producer
℗ 1957 Riverside, Inc.
Thelonious Monk, Composer, MainArtist - Orrin Keepnews, Producer
℗ 1986 Fantasy, Inc.
Thelonious Monk, Composer, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Oscar Pettiford, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Ernie Henry, Alto Saxophone, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Clark Terry, FeaturedArtist - Sonny Rollins, Tenor Saxophone, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Max Roach, Drum, AssociatedPerformer - Orrin Keepnews, Producer
℗ 1957 Riverside, Inc.
Thelonious Monk, Composer, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Oscar Pettiford, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Ernie Henry, Alto Saxophone, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Clark Terry, FeaturedArtist - Sonny Rollins, Tenor Saxophone, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Max Roach, Drum, AssociatedPerformer - Orrin Keepnews, Producer
℗ 1957 Riverside, Inc.
Thelonious Monk, Composer, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Paul Chambers, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Ernie Henry, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Clark Terry, Trumpet, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sonny Rollins, Tenor Saxophone, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Max Roach, Drum, AssociatedPerformer - Denzil Best, Composer - Orrin Keepnews, Producer
℗ 1957 Riverside, Inc.
Thelonious Monk, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Oscar Pettiford, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Ernie Henry, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Sonny Rollins, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Gordon Clifford, ComposerLyricist - Max Roach, Drum, AssociatedPerformer - Harry Barris, ComposerLyricist - Orrin Keepnews, Producer
℗ 1957 Riverside, Inc.
DISC 3
Thelonious Monk, MainArtist - Victor Young, Composer - Ned Washington, Author - Bing Crosby, Author - Orrin Keepnews, Producer
℗ 1986 Fantasy, Inc.
Thelonious Monk, MainArtist - Victor Young, ComposerLyricist - Ned Washington, ComposerLyricist - Bing Crosby, ComposerLyricist - Orrin Keepnews, Producer
℗ 1957 Fantasy, Inc.
Thelonious Monk, MainArtist - Sammy Cahn, ComposerLyricist - Paul Weston, ComposerLyricist - Axel Stordahl, ComposerLyricist - Orrin Keepnews, Producer
℗ 1986 Fantasy, Inc.
Thelonious Monk, MainArtist - Sammy Cahn, ComposerLyricist - Paul Weston, ComposerLyricist - Axel Stordahl, ComposerLyricist - Orrin Keepnews, Producer
℗ 1986 Fantasy, Inc.
Thelonious Monk, MainArtist - Sammy Cahn, ComposerLyricist - Paul Weston, ComposerLyricist - Axel Stordahl, ComposerLyricist - Orrin Keepnews, Producer
℗ 1957 Riverside, Inc.
Thelonious Monk, Composer, MainArtist - Bernie Hanighen, Composer - Orrin Keepnews, Producer - Charles Cootie Williams, Composer
℗ 1987 Riverside, Inc.
Thelonious Monk, Composer, MainArtist - Bernie Hanighen, Composer - Orrin Keepnews, Producer - Charles Cootie Williams, Composer
℗ 1957 Riverside, Inc.
Thelonious Monk, MainArtist - E.Y. HARBURG, ComposerLyricist - Vernon Duke, ComposerLyricist - Orrin Keepnews, Producer
℗ 1957 Riverside, Inc.
Thelonious Monk, MainArtist - Ned Washington, ComposerLyricist - George Bassman, ComposerLyricist - Orrin Keepnews, Producer
℗ 1957 Riverside, Inc.
John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Thelonious Monk, Composer, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Wilbur Ware, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Orrin Keepnews, Producer
℗ 2006 Fantasy, Inc.
John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Thelonious Monk, Composer, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Wilbur Ware, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Orrin Keepnews, Producer
℗ 1957 Fantasy, Inc.
DISC 4
John Coltrane, FeaturedArtist - Thelonious Monk, Composer, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Orrin Keepnews, Producer
℗ 1957 Fantasy, Inc.
Thelonious Monk, Composer, MainArtist - Orrin Keepnews, Producer
℗ 1957 Riverside, Inc.
Thelonious Monk, MainArtist - Irving Berlin, ComposerLyricist - Orrin Keepnews, Producer
℗ 1957 Fantasy, Inc.
John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Thelonious Monk, Piano, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Wilbur Ware, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Art Blakey, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Coleman Hawkins, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Gigi Gryce, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Ray Copeland, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Orrin Keepnews, Producer - Thelonious Monk Septet, MainArtist - Paulo Santos, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2006 Fantasy, Inc.
John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Thelonious Monk, Piano, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Wilbur Ware, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Art Blakey, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Coleman Hawkins, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Gigi Gryce, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Ray Copeland, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Orrin Keepnews, Producer - Thelonious Monk Septet, MainArtist - Paulo Santos, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2006 Fantasy, Inc.
Gigi Gryce, ComposerLyricist - Orrin Keepnews, Producer - Thelonious Monk Septet, MainArtist
℗ 1996 Fantasy, Inc.
John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Thelonious Monk, Composer, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Wilbur Ware, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Art Blakey, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Coleman Hawkins, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Gigi Gryce, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Ray Copeland, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Orrin Keepnews, Producer
℗ 1957 Fantasy, Inc.
John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Thelonious Monk, Composer, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Wilbur Ware, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Art Blakey, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Coleman Hawkins, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Gigi Gryce, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Ray Copeland, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Orrin Keepnews, Producer - Thelonious Monk Septet, MainArtist
℗ 1957 Fantasy, Inc.
John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Thelonious Monk, Composer - Coleman Hawkins, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Gigi Gryce, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Ray Copeland, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Orrin Keepnews, Producer - Thelonious Monk Septet, MainArtist
℗ 1957 Fantasy, Inc.
John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Thelonious Monk, Composer, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Wilbur Ware, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Art Blakey, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Coleman Hawkins, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Gigi Gryce, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Ray Copeland, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Orrin Keepnews, Producer - Thelonious Monk Septet, MainArtist - Paulo Santos, Composer
℗ 1986 Fantasy, Inc.
John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Thelonious Monk, Composer, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Wilbur Ware, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Art Blakey, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Coleman Hawkins, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Gigi Gryce, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Ray Copeland, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Orrin Keepnews, Producer - Thelonious Monk Septet, MainArtist - Paulo Santos, Composer
℗ 1957 Fantasy, Inc.
DISC 5
Thelonious Monk, ComposerLyricist - Orrin Keepnews, Producer - Thelonious Monk Septet, MainArtist
℗ 1986 Fantasy, Inc.
John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Thelonious Monk, Composer, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Wilbur Ware, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Art Blakey, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Kenny Clarke, Composer - Coleman Hawkins, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Gigi Gryce, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Ray Copeland, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Orrin Keepnews, Producer - Thelonious Monk Septet, MainArtist
℗ 1957 Fantasy, Inc.
John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Thelonious Monk, Piano, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Wilbur Ware, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Art Blakey, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Coleman Hawkins, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Gigi Gryce, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Ray Copeland, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Orrin Keepnews, Producer - Thelonious Monk Septet, MainArtist
℗ 2006 Fantasy, Inc.
John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Thelonious Monk, Piano, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Wilbur Ware, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Art Blakey, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Coleman Hawkins, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Gigi Gryce, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Ray Copeland, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Orrin Keepnews, Producer - Thelonious Monk Septet, MainArtist
℗ 1957 Fantasy, Inc.
John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Thelonious Monk, Piano, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Wilbur Ware, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Art Blakey, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Coleman Hawkins, Tenor Saxophone, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Gigi Gryce, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Ray Copeland, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Orrin Keepnews, Producer - Thelonious Monk Septet, MainArtist
℗ 1957 Fantasy, Inc.
John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Thelonious Monk, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Wilbur Ware, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Orrin Keepnews, Producer - Shadow Wilson, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1957 Fantasy, Inc.
John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Thelonious Monk, Composer, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Wilbur Ware, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Orrin Keepnews, Producer - Shadow Wilson, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1957 Fantasy, Inc.
Albumbeschreibung
The studio and live recording sessions that Thelonious Monk cut during his six-year stay at the Riverside label are compiled over the 15 discs in the Complete Riverside Recordings. This middle era -- between his early sides for Prestige and the final ones for Columbia -- is generally considered Monk's most ingenious and creative period. The sessions are presented in chronological order, accurately charting the progression and diversions of one of the most genuinely enigmatic figures in popular music. The Complete Riverside Recordings explores Monk's genius with a certain degree of real-time analysis that simply listening to each of the individual albums from this era lacks. This is due in part to the 14 additional performances exclusive to this collection. However, a more satisfying level of assessing Monk's indelible marks of extemporaneous perfection can be heard within his prankster-like sense of timing or innate penchant for sophisticated arrangements. Among the sessions captured on this exhaustive set are the Duke Ellington sides and the Sonny Rollins era (which yielded the genre-defining Brilliant Corners), as well as meetings with Coleman Hawkins, John Coltrane, and Gerry Mulligan. Additionally, the entire Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall performance is presented just as it went down -- with solo and quartet sets intact. Accompanying the discs is a 28-page full-size (12"x12") booklet that is indispensable in dispelling myths and making sense of the convoluted and seemingly random order in which many of these recordings have been previously issued. It also contains a complete sessionography annotated by Monk's producer during this era, Orrin Keepnews. This is a convenient, albeit pricey way to obtain all of this remarkable music.
© Lindsay Planer /TiVo
About the album
- 15 disc(s) - 153 track(s)
- Total length: 16:08:38
- Main artists: Thelonious Monk
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Riverside
- Genre: Jazz
© 1986 Concord Music Group, Inc. This Compilation ℗ 1986 Concord Music Group, Inc.
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