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DiscountDelight - Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall
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List Price: $18.98
Our Price: $8.73
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Manufacturer: Blue Note Records
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0094633517325
Format: Live
Label: Blue Note Records
Manufacturer: Blue Note Records
Publisher: Blue Note Records
Release Date: 2005-09-27
Studio: Blue Note Records
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Summary: Rip-off
Comment: The music on this album is great - if you are able to listen to it!
The problem is that EMI / Blue Note put some weird non-standard copy-protection thing on this CD that crashes iTunes. So I can't listen to it on my iPod, or on my main stereo setup (which runs through the computer). Nothing on the CD states that this is the case, but a quick internet search showed the problem.
Don't give these jerks your money!
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Summary: A combination made in heaven
Comment: Both Monk and Coltrane are without a doubt two of the most legendary and groundbreaking musicians in Jazz music, maybe even in music period. Both had their very own distinct styles and would produce time-less recordings in the course of their careers. Yet up until recently there was only one studio date of them together available on wax. Taken into account the reputation of both players these studio sessions have always sounded somewhat disappointing. The pieces played on the studio date always sounded somewhat unadventurous and common, never the stellar playing you'd expect from musicians with such stature.
The discovery of this live date of them together is therefore a joy for any Jazz fan. It truly sounds like a match made in heaven. Putting Trane and Monk together is tricky business. Both musicians have such distinct styles in phrasing that they could easily get in each others ways during a live outing. It's not uncommon for Jazz musicians to let their egos get the best of them. Not only that, both have certain timing to their playing that in theory could be hard to match. Yet on this outing Trane and Monk manage to complement each other in great ways. Where Coltrane sounded like a side-men on the studio date here he takes his rightful place of Monk's equal.
Both players manage to play their strengths on this album. At times the two cook it up, laying note over note, taking one unexpected turn after the other, adventurous yet always cohesive. At other times they take you away into dreamlike states in lush ballads. Because of their distinct voices even those never let go of your attention for even a moment. Both player manage to take you off guard at all times, keeping you fascinated all the way through the set.
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Summary: Monk's most Perfect Collaborator
Comment: John Coltrane and Thelonious Monk were made for one another. On this pristinely recorded concert (by 1950s standards), Monk and Coltrane show how Monk's music is to be played. This is the Nag Hammadi of music.
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Summary: Please consider boycotting this recording
Comment: Well--I'm a long time music fan. I had musical training earlier in life. I've lived and worked with musicians from time to time. I maintain an impressive Jazz and Classical collection. My home audio equipment is modest but technically well blanced and appropriate for its enviornment. [I went big into SACD]
I am rather "peeved" at the moment.
This product is not a RED BOOK Compact Disc Digital AUDIO DISC.
This is a round hunk of red-printed polycarbonate with a Digital Rights Management Technology incorporated into it--that may have some incidental music sprinkled somewhere around the edges.
From a philosophical standpoint I do not see the desirability for Copy Protection--I am positive that it is eventally self defeating--from a practical business standpoint I can understand it consideration for ephemeral "pop" music. HOWEVER: This is heritage. To COPY PROTECT a disc such as this--and let's be clear here: COPY PROTECTION on a CD is a deliberate distortion and damaging of the disc. It is an inferior product. At a minimum the disc's Error Correction Code's have been distorted to the point where even minimal injury to the disc will result in the loss of music.
The executive consideration which resulted in this action is a crime--a moral one of not one that is yet "de jure".
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Summary: Monk's Mood a Discovery?
Comment: This CD is absolutely what any jazz fan can love, but I have a question. Isn't the version of Monk's Mood on this "discovered" material the same one that was in the documentary "Straight, No Chaser?" The documentary was produced years before. So, is this material really discovered?
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Editorial Reviews:
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Every year sees a crop of newly found jazz gems, but rarely are listeners treated to anything as special as this 1957 concert recording of Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane, which was accidentally discovered in an unmarked box by a Library of Congress engineer early in 2005. Until now, fans could only dream of hearing these two immortals play together beyond the three studio tracks they left behind. But here they are, hitting their stride at an all-star benefit concert, basking in the chemistry they had developed in Monk's quartet during the preceding weeks at New York's Five Spot. Coltrane's playing is a revelation. He's both an inspired accompanist and a galvanizing soloist, taking the music to new heights with his bold, brilliantly challenging, and sometimes jaw-dropping phrases, note clusters, and blasts of power. Sharing with Coltrane a newfound sense of freedom following the personal and professional troubles that had plagued them both, Monk is clearly tickled to be in the tenorist's presence, injecting humorous commentaries and otherwise asserting his eccentric genius as a pianist. The material, which was very well recorded by the Voice of America, includes Monk classics like "Epistrophy," "Monk's Moods," and "Evidence," as well as a striking rendition of the standard "Sweet and Lovely." This is music that not only bears repeated listenings, but also demands them--the ultimate definition of a classic. --Lloyd Sachs
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