Thelonious Monk Live At The 5 Spot Vinyl

Berkeley california just a gigolo is solo piano recorded during performance at the five spot cafe ny.

Thelonious monk live at the 5 spot vinyl.

Complete your thelonious monk collection. The five spot café was a jazz club located at 5 cooper square 1956 1962 in the bowery neighborhood of new york city between the east and west village in 1962 it moved to 2 st. Its friendly non commercial low key atmosphere with affordable drinks and food and cutting edge bebop and progressive jazz attracted a host of avant garde artists and writers. Marks place until closing in 1967.

Charlie rouse is the one guy i ve heard who absolutely got monk from the harmonies to the sense of space the timing and the humor that resides in a lot of monks music. In 1957 monk s quartet with coltrane who d been fired from miles davis s quintet because of his heroin addiction which he was struggling to kick held a six month residency at the five spot. The sound and balance are not optimum and there are sporadic mechanical and electrical noises. Which makes live at the five spot an interesting as an historical document but not so great as a musical one.

Recorded live at the five spot new york city late summer 1957. View credits reviews tracks and shop for the 1982 gatefold vinyl release of live at the it club on discogs. The album was first issued in 1982 as a double lp entitled live at the it club in 1998 columbia legacy records reissued the. Sides 1 and 2 originally issued as thelonious in action riverside 262 sides 3 and 4 as misterioso riverside 279 remastered 1977 fantasy studios.

5 0 out of 5 stars monk stepping into yet newer territory reviewed in the united states on september 15 2003 granted that the music in this album recorded in 1959 is not new in itself the arrangements in it are different from your typical thelonious monk. Discover releases reviews credits songs and more about thelonious monk live at the it club at discogs. Live at the it club is a thelonious monk album released posthumously by columbia records recorded october 31 and november 1 1964 at the it club in los angeles california the album features monk s quartet performing original compositions as well as jazz standards.