Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins
Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins | ||||
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Studio album by Thelonious Monk | ||||
Released | 1956 | |||
Recorded | November 13, 1953 September 22, 1954 October 25, 1954 WOR Studios, NYC and Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 34:02 | |||
Label | Prestige | |||
Producer | Bob Weinstock Ira Gitler | |||
Thelonious Monk chronology | ||||
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MSN Music (Expert Witness) | A[3] |
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Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins is a compilation album by jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk and saxophonist Sonny Rollins released in 1956 by Prestige Records.[6] The tracks on it were recorded in three sessions between 1953 and 1954. While this is its original title, and its most consistent title in its digital re-releases, it was also released on Prestige as Work! (1959, PRLP 7169)[7] and The Genius Of Thelonious Monk (1967, PR 7656),[8] with alternative covers.[9]
Background
The album is culled from the results of three recording sessions over a span of close to twelve months featuring different personnel. Although Rollins is credited as a co-leader on the album cover, he appears on only three of the album's five tracks. It was the final Monk release on Prestige before he moved to a contract with Riverside Records.
The track "Friday the 13th" was recorded in November 1953 with a quintet of Monk, Rollins, Julius Watkins, Percy Heath, and Willie Jones; the September 1954 recordings are of a trio with Monk, Heath, and Art Blakey; and the October 1954 session Monk and Rollins again with bassist Tommy Potter and drummer Art Taylor.[10] Of the three Monk originals, "Friday the 13th" was written in the studio during the recording session, released as a ten-minute jam to fill out the album's running time.[11] Monk would return to "Nutty" again and again through his career, but this was his only recording of the composition "Work."[12]
The recordings on this 12" LP originally appeared in 1954 on three 10" LPs: Thelonious Monk Quintet Blows for LP (Prestige PRLP 166), Thelonious Monk Plays (Prestige PRLP 189)[13] and Sonny Rollins and Thelonious Monk (Prestige PRLP 190).[14][15]
Chris Sheridan, in his book Brilliant Corners: A Bio-discography of Thelonious Monk, dates the first 12-inch vinyl release of Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins (Prestige PRLP 7075) to 1956. Its release was immediately preceded in the Prestige 12-inch catalog of Monk's work by Thelonious Monk Trio (Prestige PRLP 7027), and Thelonious Monk, aka Monk (PRLP 7053).[16]
Track listing
All compositions by Thelonious Monk, except where indicated.
Side one
- "The Way You Look Tonight" (Dorothy Fields, Jerome Kern) – 5:13
- "I Want to Be Happy" (Irving Caesar, Vincent Youmans) – 7:43
- "Work" – 5:18
Side two
- "Nutty" – 5:16
- "Friday the 13th" – 10:32
Notes
- Tracks 1-4 recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio in Hackensack, NJ.
- Tracks 1 and 2 recorded on October 25, 1954, and originally released in sequence as Side A of the 10" LP Sonny Rollins and Thelonious Monk (Prestige PRLP 190)[17][18]
- Tracks 3 and 4 recorded on September 22, 1954, and originally released in sequence as Side A of the 10" LP Thelonious Monk Plays (Prestige PRLP 189)[19]
- Track 5 recorded on November 13, 1953 at WOR Studios, New York City, and originally released as Side A of Thelonious Monk Quintet Blows for LP (Prestige PRLP 166)
Personnel
- Thelonious Monk – piano
- Sonny Rollins – tenor saxophone on "The Way You Look Tonight", "I Want to Be Happy" and "Friday the 13th"
- Julius Watkins – french horn on "Friday the 13th"
- Percy Heath – bass on "Work," "Nutty" and "Friday the 13th"
- Tommy Potter – bass on "The Way You Look Tonight" and "I Want to Be Happy"
- Art Taylor – drums on "The Way You Look Tonight" and "I Want to Be Happy"
- Art Blakey – drums on "Work" and "Nutty"
- Willie Jones – drums on "Friday the 13th"
References
- ^ Allmusic Review
- ^ Wilson, John S. (7 January 1960). "Thelonious Monk: Work". DownBeat. p. 38.
- ^ Christgau, Robert (December 21, 2012). "Thelonious Monk". MSN Music. Microsoft. Archived from the original on January 10, 2013. Retrieved December 21, 2012.
- ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 145. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1021. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
- ^ Sheridan, Chris, Brilliant Corners: A Bio-discography of Thelonious Monk, p 295, Westport and London: Greenwood Press, 2001
- ^ Sheridan, Chris, Brilliant Corners: A Bio-discography of Thelonious Monk, p 296, Westport and London: Greenwood Press, 2001
- ^ Sheridan, Chris, Brilliant Corners: A Bio-discography of Thelonious Monk, p 296, Westport and London: Greenwood Press, 2001
- ^ Neely, Tim, Goldmine Standard Catalog of American Records, 1950-1975, 5th Edition p. 844, Iola, Wisconsin: Krause Publications, 2006
- ^ Thelonious Monk discography accessed 23 April 2012
- ^ Robin D.G. Kelley. Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original. New York: Free Press, 2009, ISBN 978-1-4391-9046-3, p. 165.
- ^ Kelley, Life and Times, pp. 569-571.
- ^ Kelley, Life and Times, p. 179-180
- ^ Sheridan, Chris, Brilliant Corners: A Bio-discography of Thelonious Monk, p 295, Westport and London: Greenwood Press, 2001
- ^ "Five Thelonious Monk albums remastered and reissued in new 10" box set". October 31, 2017.
- ^ Sheridan, Chris, Brilliant Corners: A Bio-discography of Thelonious Monk, p 295, Westport and London: Greenwood Press, 2001
- ^ Sheridan, Chris, Brilliant Corners: A Bio-discography of Thelonious Monk, p 295, Westport and London: Greenwood Press, 2001
- ^ "Five Thelonious Monk albums remastered and reissued in new 10" box set". October 31, 2017.
- ^ Kelley, Life and Times, p. 179-180
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