The musicians had performed together every night at New York’s Five Spot Cafe of that same. (*) Bonus track: From the same sessions. Concord’s new reissue label Craft Recordings will next month issue their first release, The Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings, a three-LP vinyl box set that celebrates the only studio recordings of Jazz masters Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane.Despite the exquisite quality of the band’s music, it yielded relatively few studio recordings, including the album reissued here. They played at New York’s Five Spot Café in a quartet format, which included bassist Ahmed Abdul Malik and drummer Shadow Wilson, in addition to Monk and Trane. COLLECTOR'S JAZZ EDITIONS AT THE BEST PRICE!Īfter returning from his trip to Philadelphia, in Mid-1957, John Coltrane accepted Thelonious Monk’s offer and joined his band for a period of six months.This release offers all of the master takes from the famous LP sessions that. John Coltrane (ts) Thelonious Monk (p) Ray Copeland ,Don Cherry (t) Gigi Gryce (as), Coleman Hawkins (ts), Wilbur Ware, Percy Heath (b), Shadow Wilson, Art Blakey, Ed Blackwell (d). BLACK SAINT & SOUL NOTE BOX SETS AT UNBEATABLE PRICES JOHN COLTRANE & THELONIOUS MONK - Complete Studio Master Takes.
20th Century Masterworks Colored Series For this special American Routes program, we follow the lives of two giants of jazz: Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane.