Thelonious Monk - Live In Rotterdam 1967 (2LP, Coffret, Edition Sapphire, vinyle translucide, 200g)
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Thelonious Monk – piano [click here to see more vinyl/SACD featuring Thelonious Monk]
Charlie Rouse – tenor saxophone
Larry Gales – double bass
Ben Riley – drums
Clark Terry – trumpet
Ray Copeland – trumpet
Jimmy Cleveland – trombone
Phil Woods – alto saxophone
Johnny Griffin – tenor saxophone
Written by Thelonious Monk (A1, A2, B1, C1-2, D1-2), Kenny Clarke (C1-2, D1), Jimmy McHugh & Dorothy Fields (C3)
2 LPs, box set with tip-on gatefold jacket printed in Italy
Limited to 4,000 numbered copies
Original analog Master tape : YES
Heavy Press : 200g
Record color : clear
Speed : 33 RPM
Size : 12”
Stereo
Live
Record Press : unspecified
Label : The Lost Recordings
Original Label : The Lost Recordings (first issued on Fondamenta)
Recorded live on October 28, 1967 at De Doelen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Restored from the original analog tapes by The Lost Recordings
Lacquers cut by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio
Originally released in 2017
Reissued in 2025
Tracks:
Side A :
- Ruby, My Dear
- Hackensack
Side B :
- We See
Side C :
- Epistrophy
- Evidence / Epistrophy
- Don't Blame Me
Side D :
- Oska T. / Epistrophy
- Blue Monk
Reviews:
When Thelonious Monk took to the stage at Club Doelen in Rotterdam on 28 October 1967, he had just turned 50. 15 years later, he disappeared from musical life, taking refuge for the last 6 years of his life in New York, at Pannonica in Koenigswater, without ever touching the piano again. Surrounded by the two "classics" "Ruby, My Dear" and "Blue Monk", he animates for more than an hour and 20 minutes the quartet of his 3 accomplices, Charlie Rouse, Larry Gales, Ben Riley and their guests. Larry Gales' bass comes out like a box at the end of "Hackensack", the brass rushes into the middle of "We See" and answers each other swirling in the dizzying "Oska". And in the middle of the concert, a solo moment on "Don't Blame Me": everything appears contrasted, twisted, oblique, each note seeming to be astonished by the previous one. Monk first goes around the melody from behind before bringing it back, pure, to the front. Finally they close: "Blue Monk", all in classical restraint.
Ratings :
Discogs : 4.73 / 5