John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk - Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall
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Music CD Cover Artist: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk Edition: Music CD Format: Live CD Release Date: 2005-09-27 Music Label: Blue Note Records Soundtracks:
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Free Music Notes for Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall Album
Free Music Review: The monk and the space cadet
Hit: 5 Stars
With so many things going wrong in the world, it's nice to see one important thing going right-- a certain Mr. Applebaum stumbles onto the recordings at the Library of Congress in January, a crack team spends the better part of the year restoring and remastering, and Blue Note and Thelonious Records put out the CD in September. The music on the CD is astonishing, and the quality of the recording is pristine beyond anyone's expectations. You could not cook up a sweeter story: for almost 50 years, we've heard the complaints that Monk and Coltrane's 5-month partnership was criminally underrecorded due to "non-musical conflicts" - the five glorious tracks put out by Riverside, and some pitifully recorded sets from the Five Spot Cafe were all that came out of it. Such a lost opportunity, particularly for Coltrane fans, because it was well-known (though not well-documented) that the saxophonist--his style, his musical conception--became totally liberated by the challenge of playing Monk's compositions with Monk.
This is the fabled document that everyone was desperate to hear, and it seems so improbable that it should appear so suddenly, so without incident, like any common reissue, that the built-up anticipation may at first occlude the actual material on the disc. But listen twice, and then three times, and then more...
You will hear John Coltrane surging forth, taking a quantum leap from the shaky but determined voice of Miles Davis' early quintet to the astonishing technique that would lead him into "Giant Steps", into his next work with Miles, and into the 1960s, where--though the charm of many of those recordings has worn off a bit for me--he became a prophet for so many musicians, and not just saxophone players. I'm not sure if it's Monk the writer, or Monk the player, or both, that enabled Coltrane to break free. But whatever the catalyst, Trane gets plenty of space and freedom on these tracks to completely lose his mind and go into the stream-of-consciousness solos that immortalized him. The same kind of ferocity that we heard on "Trinkle Tinkle" from that Riverside album is displayed here on the up-tempo tracks. As for the ballads, "Crepuscule with Nellie" has rarely sounded better, and an extended "Monk's Mood" achieves an even more sublime strangeness than we are accustomed to from Monk.
Ah, but half a century later, Monk can still surprise. He must certainly have been aware of how quickly and dramatically his disciple was growing, and he elevated his game appropriately. This is a Monk that we are not so familiar with... it's not his best piano performance, but it definitely stands out now and augments the rest of his output. He doesn't go off the map, but he seems trickier, more freewheeling in his solos, more deliberate in his rhythm work behind Coltrane. Both men are obviously in a state of exuberant transition. Gratitude and appreciation are the only proper responses.
As a side note, these two sets were recorded at Carnegie Hall on November 29th, 1957 as part of a benefit for something called the Morningside Community Center. Also on the bill? Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie's orchestra, Ray Charles, and Sonny Rollins. Has Carnegie Hall ever seen a better night??