Jazz Articles about Thelonious Monk

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Various Artists: Monterey Jazz Festival: Forty Legendary Years

by Chris M. Slawecki
October 1, 1997

In my wilder, more unforgiving days, I might have merely typed up the personnel and set list and submitted only that in review of Monterey Jazz Festival: Forty Legendary Years, and argued to the powers-that-be that if the reader couldn’t comprehend its abundant magnificence of music from the unadorned facts, my descriptive and persuasive prowess would be of slight use.

I must have grown either more wise or more foolish since then.

Make no mistake: Monterey Jazz Festival: Forty Legendary ...

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Thelonious Monk: Live At The Five Spot: Discovery!

by Jim Santella
February 1, 1997

This live date, recorded in the summer of `57, features pianist and composer Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane on tenor sax, Ahmed Abdul-Malik on bass, and Roy Haynes on drums. Since it was captured on a portable tape recorder by Juanita (Naima) Coltrane, the total immersion of being in a live session pervades, with audience conversations and other background noises popping up at unexpected intervals. Unfortunately, the single microphone was positioned too far away from John Coltrane, so that there's ...