More Time: 975:02 | Year: 1986 | 15CDs | 4.63GB | RAR Recovery 5% The studio and live recording sessions that Thelonious Monk cut during his six-year stay at the Riverside label are compiled over the 15 discs in the Complete Riverside Recordings. This middle era -- between his early sides for Prestige and the final ones for Columbia -- is generally considered Monk's most ingenious and creative period. The sessions are presented in chronological order, accurately charting the progression and diversions of one of the most genuinely enigmatic figures in popular music. The Complete Riverside Recordings explores Monk's genius with a certain degree of real-time analysis that simply listening to each of the individual albums from this era lacks. This is due in part to the 14 additional performances exclusive to this collection. However, a more satisfying level of assessing Monk's indelible marks of extemporaneous perfection can be heard within his prankster-like sense of timing or innate penchant for sophisticated arrangements. Among the sessions captured on this exhaustive set are the Duke Ellington sides and the Sonny Rollins era (which yielded the genre-defining Brilliant Corners), as well as meetings with Coleman Hawkins, John Coltrane, and Gerry Mulligan. Additionally, the entire Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall performance is presented just as it went down -- with solo and quartet sets intact. Accompanying the discs is a 28-page full-size (12"x12") booklet that is indispensable in dispelling myths and making sense of the convoluted and seemingly random order in which many of these recordings have been previously issued. It also contains a complete sessionography annotated by Monk's producer during this era, Orrin Keepnews. This is a convenient, albeit pricey way to obtain all of this remarkable music.
Review by Lindsay Planer With 15 jam-packed CDs and a well-designed LP-sized booklet with beautiful photos inside, this is the mother of all Thelonious Monk collections. Its supremacy is only in part related to girth and presentation, however. Historians and critics are almost unanimous in appraising the years Monk spent with the then-fledgling Riverside Records as his best. And this set catches it all, from the moments of deeply inspired, quicksilver genius to the foibles, miscues, and studio chatter (which is very minimal). Beginning in 1955 with a trio recording of Ellington tunes to the slew of live recordings that compose most of the last eight CDs, the recordings here end in 1961, with Monk leading a slender quartet fronted by tenor saxophonist Charlie Rouse, who would remain with him through many of his Columbia releases of the 1960s. Monk's trail up to his lengthy stint with Riverside began with a short tenure at Blue Note, and while those recordings (collected on the four-CD Complete Blue Note Recordings) illuminate the pianist's skewered take on bebop, sessions like the one that makes up the Brilliant Corners single CD (and that appear, of course, here) show ways Monk was doubling back on jazz styles, piling techniques from the swing era--a more moderated approach to underlying swing, for example--onto his odd voicings on chords, which arrest the ear at every turn. Where the Brilliant Corners sessions show Monk working with a rasp-toned Sonny Rollins on tenor and Ernie Henry on alto, the bands expand and contract repeatedly throughout the 30 sessions, all of them annotated by producer and Riverside cofounder Orrin Keepnews in the booklet. You can hear Monk tailoring his Tatum-esque flourishes on the solo sessions that led to Thelonious Himself and Thelonious Alone in San Francisco and then lavishing reams of reeds and brass when in 1957 he corralled John Coltrane and Coleman Hawkins on tenor saxes, Ray Copeland on trumpet, Gigi Gryce on alto sax, and Art Blakey for the Monk's Music session or when in 1959 he led a roiling ten-piece in the At Town Hall session. But the most intimate encounters are the smaller ones, with Gerry Mulligan clearly finding all manner of seams and creases to drop his flowing baritone in on the Mulligan Meets Monk session or with Monk finding an ideal chemistry with Johnny Griffin's fast, tight tenor sax lines. Then there is the microtonal poetry of a 20-minute listen-in where Monk explores "Round Midnight," giving listeners a keen glimpse into the mind of one of jazz's most singularly creative minds in history. With any one of the single CDs that together make up this package, a listener could so easily get hooked into buying all the work Monk did for Riverside disc by disc that it makes sense to take the colossal leap and scoop it all up at once--and then dig way in.
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01. It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
02. Sophisticated Lady
03. I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good Enough)
04. Black And Tan Fantasy
05. Mood Indigo
06. I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart
07. Solitude
08. Caravan
09. Liza, All The Clouds'll Roll Away
10. Memories of You
11. Honeysuckle Rose
12. Darn That Dream
13. Tea For Two
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