Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane / Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings

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.

The musicians had performed together every night at New York’s Five Spot Cafe of that same year and between April and July they made their only studio recordings together. Coltrane recalled: “Working with Monk brought me close to a musical architect of the highest order. I learned from him in every way.”

This deluxe triple vinyl box set will feature ‘file folder’ packaging, original artwork, rare photos and 180-gram vinyl pressed at RTI from lacquers cut by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, California. It also includes an essay by the late Orrin Keepnews, who was there at the time, producing these original sessions.

The Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings will be issued on 26 May 2017.

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John Coltrane Thelonious Monk

The Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings [VINYL]

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LP 1
1. Monk’s Mood [false start]
2. Monk’s Mood
3. Crepuscule with Nellie [take 1]
4. Crepuscule with Nellie [take 2]
5. Crepuscule with Nellie [breakdown]
6. Blues for Tomorrow [first stereo release]
7. Crepuscule with Nellie [edited: retakes 4 & 5]

LP 2
1. Crepuscule with Nellie [retake 6]
2. Off Minor [take 4]
3. Off Minor [take 5]
4. Abide with Me [take 1]
5. Abide with Me
6. Ephistrophy [short version]
7. Ephistrophy
8. Well, You Needn’t [opening]

LP 3
1. Well, You Needn’t
2. Ruby, My Dear [with Coleman Hawkins]
3. Ruby, My Dear [with John Coltrane]
4. Nutty
5. Trinkle, Tinkle