Release Date: 07 April 2014
Label: Essential Jazz Classics
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 8436542016568
Genres: Jazz
Description
This release contains all existing collaborative recordings by Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins. They were highly compatible players, and Rollins was the pianist's first choice when he planned to form his first regular quartet in 1960 (Sonny was unable to accept and Charlie Rouse joined the band instead) Rollins and Monk's conjunct works consist of two 1953/54 studio dates for Prestige, the amazing 1956 LP Brilliant Corners (Riverside RLP12-226), and two songs from a 1957 Rollins session for Blue Note. As a bonus all of the other tunes from the 1957 Blue Note date (with Horace Silver on piano replacing Monk), and two further interpretations of Monk's compositions by Rollins: a wonderful 1956 live reading of "'Round Midnight" with the saxophonist sharing solo space with Clifford Brown, and a 1949 studio recording of "52nd Street Theme", featuring Rollins with Fats Navarro and Bud Powell.
Tracklisting
Tina Brooks Quintet
Nancy Wilson, Cannonball Aderley & George Shearing
Stan Getz
Steve Lacy
Booker Little
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Chet Baker
Harry James
Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk
Kristin Lee
Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk
