MONK, THELONIOUS /J.COLTRANE- CARNEGIE HALL 200g LP New

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BRAND NEW/FACTORY SEALED

Still sealed Pressed on 200g QUIEX SV-P

A forgotten November 1957 Carnegie Hall concert taped by Voice of America radio, recently discovered by the Library ofCongress.

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Jazz has had its share of archival discoveries, not the least of which were Dean Benedetti's recordings of Charlie Parker. But the discovery of more music from the Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane is made all the more extraordinary because so few knew it existed and the only official recordings by this band were made in its first weeks of existence. Now, a forgotten November 1957 Carnegie Hall concert taped by Voice of America radio has been discovered by the Library of Congress with two appearances by the quartet.

These two 25-minute, five-tune sets feature the quartet in great fidelity and unbelievable form. The empathy and invention of the group here far surpasses the Riverside session, made months earlier. Playing together every night for 18 weeks sharpened the skills and interaction of these brilliant musicians. Monk's piano playing has never sounded like this; his arpeggios are virtuosic and each note rings with clarity on the Carnegie Hall piano. Coltrane had fully mastered Monk's music by this time. In the confines of short playing times (most tunes are four to six minutes in duration), he plays with a fervid intensity trying to cram all his ideas into a brief amount of time. Ahmed Abdul-Malik and Shadow Wilson play the intricate arrangements with fluidity and push the soloists to great heights. Thanks to the clarity and presence of Wilson's drums on this recording, his work will be a revelation to anyone who had not had the fortune to see him live.

This LP was mastered from the original 15-inches-per-second analog tapes by Kevin Hodge at the Master Cutting Room and pressed at RTI on 200-gram virgin vinyl.

"This live recording of a November 1957 concert – the tapes for which were believed long-gone until a routine archival search at the Library of Congress turned them up – turns out to be one of the greatest jazz albums of all time." – Fred Kaplan, The Absolute Sound, February 2006, Issue 159

"…As someone whose second jazz album was Monk's Criss-Cross and whose first was Coltrane's My Favorite Things, I can say that hearing this for the first time was jolting…Though this is a 'historic' mono recording, the 15IPS tapes have held up remarkably well (they weren't played, for one thing!) and the mono sound quality is excellent, especially harmonically. Dynamically things are somewhat curtailed, but listen into the recording and there's great purity, transparency and three dimensionality as well as a fine sense of the Carnegie Hall acoustics…the LP lacquer was cut at the Master Cutting Room from the original analog master tapes…Add a 200gram Quiex-SV-P pressing, fine annotation and a beautifully produced paper on cardboard gatefold sleeve and you have a not to be missed release." – Michael Fremer, musicangle.com

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Track listings

1.  MONK'S MOOD 
2.  EVIDENCE 
3.  CREPUSCULE WITH NELLIE 
4.  NUTTY 
5.  EPISTROPHY 
6.  BYE-YA 
7.  SWEET AND LOVELY 
8.  BLUE MONK 
9.  EPISTROPHY

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This LP is brand new, unplayed and graded as MINT.