That is great news! New recordings to me so very exciting. I doubt the vinyl will be available where I am but CD will do fine.
It was in 1959 that Charlie Rouse started working regularly with Monk, though they had played together (and were recorded live) earlier
I have an US 1986 repress of Money Jungle with bonus tracks. Sounds fine to me. No alternate takes, just tracks that weren't released on the original LP.
OK thanks for the info. I didn't realize one was issued so late. Was a CD issued at the same time with bonus tracks? It may have been copied from those?
Not for me. I want the vinyl. Fred Thomas of Sam Records is doing it, and his stuff is all quality. I will find and buy the box
And interestingly Wilen had recorded a batch of Monk tunes in '57, so he was a great choice and I'm eager to hear him in this quintet setting.
I want the vinyl too believe me but I am in Hamburg, Germany and doubt very much it will find its way here on RSD. If it does then I will nab one too
Brad Shepik and the Commuters – The Loan (Songlines) — Personnel: Brad Shepik, electric guitar, acoustic, guitar, electric sax, Portuguese guitar, banjo, cumbus; Peter Epstein, alto and soprano sax; Tony Scherr, electric bass; Kenny Wollesen, drums, timpani; Seido Salifoski, dumbek, percussion — Jazz informed by the folk music of the Balkans, Turkey, North Africa and the Arab world. Nice session.
Yeah but prices will inflate online and also then the import duty which is high from the US, it all adds up to a very expensive record. I am content with a CD if the box doesn't fall in my lap. I hope you get one. Good luck
I only have this on CD, and somehow I had misplaced the CD for I dunno how long, but a long time....I had the CD case, but it was empty. Last weekend, in the desperate search for some old computer files from a decade ago, I came across the disc amid a container of old rewritable data discs. Hooray! Maybe Abrams' best album.... with the big band (18 pieces!), in some ways it's also Abrams at his most Ellingtonian (the reed section ballad tone), and most Dukas-esque? Part of "Hearinga" reminds me of Dukas' "Sorcerer's Apprentice."
Agreed. But stuff like this is where I splurge. Music first, but I love Monk, and this will be a nice set I'm sure. That said, I'm surprised that they're only doing a RSD release. Monk ain't some obscurity. You would think this is an item that would sell in more then limited numbers.
Agreed, it is worth a proper retail release imo. At least the CD comes after, that is at least something for the rest of us that miss out. I hate the whole limited nonsense.
(This is the original cover, I'm listening to the Jazz in Paris version released this month). Great stuff! Bass – Michel Gaudry Bugle – Bernard Vitet Drums – Daniel Humair Liner Notes – Pierre "Le Chiffre" Noblet* Photography By – Jean-Pierre Leloir Piano – Georges Arvanitas Tenor Saxophone – François Jeanneau
The "new" Monk album features no new tunes, but still, prime period, and interesting that Barney Wilen is on it.
Listening to George Benson CTI jewel "Bad Benson" (1974). CD remastered (2001). I had that album on vinyl in the last seventies. I bought that cd today.
Wilen was an interesting and good choice. He was a prodigy sensation at the time, was a veteran of soundtracks as he had done that Miles Davis soundtrack, and he had done a handful of Monk tunes, quite successfully, on his album of '57.
Listening to my old LP. . .the "Lonely Fire" side. Just enough age and surface noise to make me know it's my old LP but sounds SO good. So much better than the cds.
