Japanese only remastered SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) pressing includes 4 bonus tracks. Universal. 2008.

LIVE AT THE MONTEREY JAZZ FESTIVALS is an outstanding new CD series of NEVER-BEFORE RELEASED performances by jazz icons recorded live at the world-renowned Monterey Jazz Festival; all recorded at the height of each artists' artistic powers.



These are the inaugural releases of Concord Music Group and Monterey Jazz Festival's MJF RECORDS imprint. All selections are previously unreleased and feature never-before-heard releases culled from historic live archives. Profits realized by the Monterey Jazz Festival from this series will be re-invested into its ongoing jazz education programs. Don't miss these spectacular, rare and historic recordings!



Featuring Charlie Rouse, Steve Swallow, Ben Riley

Recorded at the Five Spot Cafe, New York City, August 7, 1958.
Thelonious Monk — piano
Johnny Griffin — tenor saxophone
Ahmed Abdul-Malik — bass
Roy Haynes — drums

1-6:THELONIOUS MONK,piano;IDREES SULIEMAN,trumpet;DANNY QUEBEC WEST,alto sax;GENE RAMEY,bass;ART BLAKEY,drums
7-16:THELONIOUS MONK,piano;GENE RAMEY,bass;ART BLAKEY,drums
17-21:THELONIOUS MONK,piano;GEORGE TAITT,trumpet;SAHIB SHIHAB,alto sax;BOB PAIGE,bass;ART BLAKEY,drums
Recording engineer:DOUG HAWKINS

In conjunction with the release of Ken Burns' ten-part, 19-hour epic PBS documentary Jazz, Columbia issued 22 single-disc compilations devoted to jazz's most significant artists, as well as a five-disc historical summary. Since the individual compilations attempt to present balanced overviews of each artist's career, tracks from multiple labels have thankfully been licensed where appropriate. Accordingly, Thelonious Monk's volume draws from his early piano trio recordings with Blue Note and his expanded ensembles and solo explorations for Riverside and Columbia. Monk frequently re-recorded many of his now-standard compositions in different formats, so it's difficult to choose definitive versions; the compilers have wisely opted to present the full spectrum of arrangement approaches Monk employed over the course of his career. Not quite all of Monk's best-known pieces are here, but … » Read more

Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone – Sonny Stitt
Bass – Al McKibbon
Drums – Art Blakey
Piano – Thelonious Monk
Trombone – Kai Winding
Trumpet – Dizzy Gillespie

Recorded - December 30, 1963 at Lincoln Center, Philharmonic Hall, New York City
Big Band Personnel
Nick Travis - Trumpet
Thad Jones - Cornet
Eddie Bert - Trombone
Steve Lacy - Soprano Saxophone
Phil Woods - Alto Saxophone, Clarinet
Charlie Rouse - Tenor Saxophone
Gene Allen - Baritone Saxophone, Bass Clarinet, Clarinet
Hall Overton - Orchestra Arranger
Quartet
Charlie Rouse - Tenor Saxophone
Butch Warren - Bass
Frankie Dunlop - Drums

Recorded：July 21 and 27, 1955
Studio：Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey
Thelonious Monk – piano
Oscar Pettiford – bass
Kenny Clarke – drums

Australian pressing. This never-before heard jazz classic documents one of the most historically important working bands in all of Jazz history, a band that was both short-lived and, until now, thought to be frustratingly under-recorded. The concert, which took place at the famed New York hall on November 29, 1957, was preserved on newly-discovered tapes made by Voice of America for a later radio broadcast that were located at the Library of Congress in Washington DC earlier this year. Blue Note. 2005.

Japanese limited edition 24-bit remastered reissue of the late jazz icon's 1947 album. Blue Note. 2004.