Wed October 11, 2017 1:54 am
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Wed October 11, 2017 11:28 pm
Higgs wrote:5 Disc "Complete Originals" set playing through in order.
Sat October 21, 2017 1:45 pm
Tue October 24, 2017 11:28 pm
bodysnatcher wrote:i need some Miles recommendations from these bootleg series. haven't looked into them.
Tue December 12, 2017 9:59 pm
Thu December 21, 2017 9:07 pm
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Thu December 21, 2017 10:37 pm
bada wrote:Someone should post a nice intro to jazz mix for use unsophisticates.
Fri December 22, 2017 3:10 am
Kevin Davis wrote:Not sure if this would be of interest to anyone here, but this is a little project I have been slowly but steadily working on for the past 2-3 years or so and wanted to share the details of it here.
In the summer of 2012 I read the Thelonious Monk biography "The Life and Times of An American Original" by Robin Kelley. Monk has long been a favorite composer and performer of mine, but reading this biography really pushed me off the deep end. I was particularly struck by a comment that I had read there and elsewhere which stated that Monk is the second most "covered" jazz composer of all-time, behind Duke Ellington. However, while Ellington had thousands of copyrights to his name, Monk only had something like 70 -- songs which he recorded over and over again, some which he never recorded at all, but still, a small body of work considering his reputation as one of the art form's great composers.
So it seemed like tracking down at least one version of every original song he recorded ought to be a relatively doable task, and for a few years I steadily sought out Monk releases with this goal in mind. Somewhere along the way, it dawned on me that it would be cool to compile an anthology of sorts -- personal favorite versions of each composition, but with every composition represented once. Finally, after a leisurely three years of putting it together, the comp is done.
The collection spans six discs and covers 21 years -- from 1947 to 1968. Minus a few oddball tracks that Kelley and other students of Monk's music have reasonably deduced are either unfinished pieces or improvisations, this should be every Monk composition that he recorded his own version of (I used the appendix in Kelley's book as my reference material, so there shouldn't be any holes). All the recordings are sourced from my personal CD collection, ripped to iTunes as WAVs and then converted to FLAC via Poweramp. I am too inept of an engineer to do much audio manipulation, but I did fade live tracks in and out for continuity purposes, and tweaked the overall volume of a couple tracks ever so slightly, but these are still sourced from a variety of different CD's from a variety of different labels that were all mastered and remastered and re-remastered at various points in time and therefore don't sound perfectly continuous from a sonic standpoint. But from a musical standpoint, it's six discs of bliss.
Thelonious Monk -- Complete Originals
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I don't feel like going back and typing out the personnel for each track, but information should be easily available by searching the original albums, and suffice it to say Monk's supporting cast throughout this set includes Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Max Roach, Percy Heath, Johnny Griffin, and the soulmate of his later years, tenor man Charlie Rouse, among many other capable henchmen. Hopefully this is of interest to at least a few of you -- feel free to drop me a line to discuss it further. Merry early Christmas to all
Fri December 22, 2017 7:43 pm
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Mon January 29, 2018 9:07 pm
Mon January 29, 2018 9:27 pm
doug rr wrote:
here we go, finally...just pre ordered the vinyl. it ships late March
Mon January 29, 2018 10:43 pm
bodysnatcher wrote:doug rr wrote:
here we go, finally...just pre ordered the vinyl. it ships late March
missed this post, but just saw this on a record blog i frequent. pre-ordering now.
been on a HUGE jazz kick lately. going to re-read this thread and get some new recommendations
Mon January 29, 2018 10:45 pm
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