Miles & Monk at Newport
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Miles & Monk at Newport | ||||
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Released | June 1964[1][2] | |||
Recorded | May & July 1958, April 1963 | |||
Venue | Newport Jazz Festival | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 51:00 (LP) 1:31:39 (CD) | |||
Label | Columbia | |||
Producer | Teo Macero | |||
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Miles Davis chronology | ||||
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The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | (CD reissue)[3] |
Miles & Monk at Newport was a combined album of a Miles Davis appearance at Newport with an appearance of Thelonious Monk, recorded in 1958 and 1963 and released in June 1964 by Columbia records.[1][2] Despite the title, the two artists do not perform together on the LP, and they are represented on each side by separate 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. On the second side were a few numbers by Thelonious Monk's combo, from a 1963 Newport appearance. It featured an idiosyncratic appearance by clarinetist Pee Wee Russell. The Miles set was recorded in mono and the Monk set was recorded in stereo, so the mono LP featured a fold-down of the Monk set and the stereo LP featured an electronically re-channeled for stereo remix of the Miles set.
In 1973, an expanded version of the Davis Newport performance was released as the LP Miles & Coltrane.
In 1994 the album was released with the Davis Newport performances expanded and the Monk portion released separately on the 2CD Monk compilation At Newport 1963 & 1965.
Track listing[]
Original LP[]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Ah-Leu-Cha" | Charlie Parker | 5:47 |
2. | "Straight, No Chaser" | Thelonious Monk | 8:46 |
3. | "Fran-Dance" | Miles Davis | 7:04 |
4. | "Two Bass Hit" | Dizzy Gillespie, John Lewis | 4:13 |
Total length: | 25:50 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Nutty" | Thelonious Monk | 13:55 |
2. | "Blue Monk" | Thelonious Monk | 11:15 |
Total length: | 25:10 |
CD Reissue[]
SME Records – SRCS 9732-3[5]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Introduction" | 2:11 | |
2. | "Ah-Leu-Cha" | Charlie Parker | 5:56 |
3. | "Straight, No Chaser" | Thelonious Monk | 8:50 |
4. | "Fran-Dance" | Miles Davis | 7:08 |
5. | "Two Bass Hit" | Dizzy Gillespie, John Lewis | 4:14 |
6. | "Bye Bye Blackbird" | Mort Dixon, Ray Henderson | 9:11 |
7. | "The Theme" | Isham Jones, Marty Symes | 2:50 |
Total length: | 40:20 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Introduction" | 1:25 | |
2. | "Criss-Cross" | Thelonious Monk | 8:12 |
3. | "Light Blue" | Thelonious Monk | 9:53 |
4. | "Nutty" | Thelonious Monk | 13:51 |
5. | "Blue Monk" | Thelonious Monk | 11:24 |
6. | "Epistrophy" | Thelonious Monk, Kenny Clarke | 6:34 |
Total length: | 51:19 |
Personnel[]
Side One personnel
- Miles Davis – trumpet
- Cannonball Adderley – alto saxophone
- John Coltrane – tenor saxophone
- Wynton Kelly – 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
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Editorial Staff, Cash Box (June 6, 1964). "Columbia Unveils 18 New June LPs" (PDF). Cash Box. New York: The Cash Box Publishing Co. Inc. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Editorial Staff, Billboard (June 20, 1964). "New Album Releases". Billboard. Cincinnati: The Billboard Publishing Co. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 343. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
- ^ "The Miles Davis Sextet & The Thelonious Monk Quartet – Miles & Monk at Newport (Original LP)". Discogs. Retrieved March 27, 2017.
- ^ "The Miles Davis Sextet & The Thelonious Monk Quartet – Miles & Monk at Newport (CD Reissue)". Discogs. Retrieved March 27, 2017.
- Thelonious Monk live albums
- Miles Davis live albums
- Albums recorded at the Newport Jazz Festival
- 1964 live albums
- Albums produced by Teo Macero
- Columbia Records live albums
- Split albums
- 1958 in Rhode Island
- 1963 in Rhode Island