Miles & Monk at Newport
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| Miles & Monk at Newport | ||
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| Live album by Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk | ||
| Released | 1963 | |
| Recorded | May & July 1958, April 1961 | |
| Genre | Jazz | |
| Label | Columbia | |
Miles & Monk at Newport was a combined album of a Miles Davis appearance at Newport with an appearance of Thelonious Monk, from the LP era. These are two different performances at two different times. Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk do not perform together on this LP.
Both sides represented live appearances at the Newport Jazz Festival.
On the first side of the LP was a series of high tempo performances of bebop tunes and other staples of the Davis live repertoire from 1958. The performance was contemporaneous with Davis' Milestones album. Aside from the 1973 release Jazz at the Plaza (also a 1958 concert) during the LP era, this was the only legitimate (non-bootleg) recording of a live Davis combo performance earlier than the 1960 Blackhawk recordings. As such, this performance and Jazz at the Plaza were the only legitimate live recordings representing the Kind of Blue sextet.
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[edit] Track listing
Side 1 Compositions (in original LP configuration):
- Ah-Leu-Cha (5:55, composed by Charlie Parker)
- Straight, No Chaser (8:52, composed by Thelonious Monk)
- Fran-Dance (7:08, composed by Miles Davis)
- Two Bass Hit (4:19, composed by Dizzy Gillespie and John Lewis)
On the second side were a few numbers by Thelonious Monk's combo, from a 1963 Newport appearance. It featured the idiosyncratic appearance by clarinetist Pee Wee Russell.
Side 2 Compositions:
- Nutty (13:57, composed by Thelonious Monk)
- Blue Monk (11:18, composed by Thelonious Monk)
[edit] Personnel
Side One Personnel:
- Miles Davis (trumpet)
- Cannonball Adderley (alto saxophone)
- John Coltrane (tenor saxophone)
- Bill Evans (piano)
- Paul Chambers (bass)
- Jimmy Cobb (drums)
Side Two personnel:
- Pee Wee Russell (clarinet)
- Charlie Rouse (tenor saxophone)
- Thelonious Monk (piano)
- Butch Warren (bass)
- Frankie Dunlop (drums)
[edit] Discographical notes
- Original mono and stereo catalog numbers for the album: (Columbia CL 2178, CS 8978).
- In 1973, an expanded version of the Davis Newport performances was released as the LP Miles & Coltrane.
- In the 2000s the album was released with the Davis Newport performances expanded and the Monk portion released separately on the 2CD Monk compilation Live at Newport 1963-65.
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