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Message: <blockquote data-quote="uploader_elakiri" data-source="post: 11680516" data-attributes="member: 385502">Thelonious Monk - The Columbia Years (1962-1968)<img src="http://i32.fastpic.ru/big/2011/1121/45/5d3f4c973039827a5c4f97ee6ea23845.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Thelonious Monk - The Columbia Years (1962-1968) (2001)Release Date: Jun 19, 2001 | Recording Date: Oct 31, 1962 - Nov 19, 1968 | Format: Mp3@320 | 477 MBGenre: Jazz | Label: Sony | Number of Discs: 3Amazon.comWhile occasionally maligned, Thelonious Monk's '60s recordings for Columbia yielded many moments of warmth and ingenuity. His first two albums for the label, Monk's Dream and Criss-Cross, rank among his very best; the latter demonstrated the company's success in raising his profile, becoming in 1963 his sole LP to place on the pop charts. This three-CD box, like the 2000 collection of Prestige sessions, aims to push Monk's '60s music into the spotlight shared by his Blue Note and Riverside classics. While deviled by a handful of questionable choices, The Columbia Years for the most part succeeds.As Peter Keepnews's liner notes point out, Monk spent an inordinate amount of his time at Columbia rerecording his established repertoire, dipping into not only his own stock of compositions, but favorite standards such as "April in Paris." Often supported by the excellent likes of saxophonist Charlie Rouse and drummer Ben Riley, Monk made trio and quartet versions of such classics into keepers. He also continued his sporadic work with larger groups in settings both sublime (the performances here of "Evidence" and "Epistrophy," recorded during the 1967 European tour captured in the documentary Straight, No Chaser) and misguided (the Oliver Nelson-led Monk's Blues sessions that nonetheless supply this set's lovely, bracing "Reflections").Unfortunately, in concentrating on Monk's best-known titles, The Columbia Years misses his more than worthwhile forays off the beaten path. The pianist's reading of "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" (from the '67 Straight, No Chaser disc), for instance, is one of his slyest, most musically complete stretchings of a theme; ranging from stately to a stride-like bounce over nearly eight minutes, it would have proved the centerpiece of the box. The inclusion of a listless alternate take of "Honeysuckle Rose" near the end of disc 1 also baffles.Still, The Columbia Years mostly dazzles, with Monk reveling in his heightened fame and, of course, his music. Listen long before deriding the best of the work here: it's the sound of one of America's greatest musician-composers continuing to challenge himself on his own terms. --Rickey WrightDisc One centers on reissued studio sessions in trio and quartet format. At the piano, Monk thrills with his use of unique tone clusters and devil-may-care keyboard rants. There?s always a high level of energy, even though the tempo varies from a slow and deliberate ?Pannonica? to a jumpin? and jivin? ?In Walked Bud.? Jon Hendricks parades both lyrics and scat singing proudly around the classic tune.Disc Two combines big bands in both studio and live sessions with solo piano and quartet segments in concert. Monk?s piano work stands apart as powerfully percussive and full of vigor. The take presented here of ?Blue Monk? with studio big band swings with passion and heats up considerably. Soloist Rouse is in fine form. It?s a different take than that released in 1994 on the CD reissue of Monk?s Blues. From a 1967 solo piano concert performance in Puebla, Mexico, Monk performs ?Don?t Blame Me? with deliberately slow and meaningful expression. ?I Mean You? is from Columbia?s 1963 LP Big Band And Quartet In Concert, also released on CD in ?94 by Sony. Thad Jones, Charlie Rouse, Frankie Dunlop and Phil Woods contribute exciting solos alongside Monk?s fresh performance.Disc Three offers live Monk performances in concert and club settings, with both small and large ensembles. At the Newport Jazz Festival with Pee Wee Russell, and at the Monterey Jazz Festival with a nonet, Monk and Rouse swing heartily. In Stockholm, Monk is with a small ensemble that includes Johnny Griffin, Phil Woods and Ray Copeland. At the It club in Los Angeles, he?s in vintage form with Rouse, Larry Gales and Ben Riley.Disc 1:01 - Monk Speaks02 - Bye-Ya03 - Coming On The Hudson04 - Rhythm-A-Ning05 - Think Of One06 - Pannonica07 - Crepuscule With Nellie08 - April In Paris09 - Ugly Beauty10 - Honeysuckle Rose11 - In Walked Bud12 - TheloniousDisc 2:01 - Reflections02 - Blue Monk03 - 'Round Midnight04 - Dinah05 - Ask Me Now06 - Ruby, My Dear07 - Don't Blame Me08 - (When It's) Darkness On The Delta09 - Played Twice10 - I Mean You11 - Bemsha Swing12 - Jackie-ingDisc 3:01 - Nutty02 - Straight, No Chaser03 - Evidence04 - Epistrophy05 - Well, You Needn't06 - Misterioso07 - Hackensack08 - Bright MississippiPersonnel: Thelonious Monk- piano; Pee Wee Russell- clarinet; Steve Lacy- soprano saxophone; Phil Woods- alto saxophone, clarinet; Buddy Collette- alto saxophone, other reeds; Ernie Watts, Gene Cipriano- alto saxophone; Johnny Griffin, Tom Scott, Charlie Rouse- tenor saxophone; Jack Nimitz, Ernie Small- baritone saxophone; Gene Allen- baritone saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet; Thad Jones- cornet; Nick Travis, Bobby Bryant, Conte Candoli, Freddie Hill, Melvin Moore, Ray Copeland- trumpet; Eddie Bert, Lou Blackburn, Bob Brookmeyer, Billy Byers, Mike Wimberly, Jimmy Cleveland- trombone; John Ore, Butch Warren, Steve Swallow, Larry Gales- bass; Frankie Dunlop, John Guerin, Ben Riley- drums; Howard Roberts- guitarDownload [code]http://filesonic.com/file/4037908524/TM colum68.part1.rarhttp://filesonic.com/file/4037907034/TM colum68.part2.rarhttp://filesonic.com/file/4037910974/TM colum68.part3.rarhttp://filesonic.com/file/4037909964/TM colum68.part4.rarhttp://filesonic.com/file/4037911184/TM colum68.part5.rar[/code]</blockquote>

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