構成数 | 15枚

合計収録時間 | 05:17:49

22 LPs on 15 CDs representing the entire existing output of the 30 occasions (studio sessions and live dates) on which Monk recorded for Riverside; 153 performances covering 1955 to 1961, in chronological order. The set includes partial takes, in-studio conversation, and 14 previously unissued items. Personnel includes: Thelonious Monk (piano); Gigi Gryce, Ernie Henry (alto saxophone); John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Coleman Hawkins, Charlie Rouse, Johnny Griffin, Harold Land (tenor saxophone); Gerry Mulligan (baritone saxophone); Joe Gordon, Ray Copeland, Clark Terry, Donald Byrd (trumpet); Thad Jones (cornet), Paul Chambers, Sam Jones, Percy Heath, Wilbur Ware, Oscar Pettiford, John Ore (bass); Shadow Wilson, Kenny Clarke, Philly Joe Jones, Shelly Manne, Art Blakey, Max Roach, Roy Haynes, Art Taylor, Billy Higgins, Frankie Dunlop (drums). Producer: Orrin Keepnews. Compilation producer: Orrin Keepnews. Engineers include: Rudy Van Gelder, Jack Higgins, Ray Fowler. Recorded between 1955 and 1961. Includes liner notes by Orrin Keepnews. Digital remastering by Danny Kopelson (Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, California) and Takeshi Miyagishima (Victor Studios, Tokyo). 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. ~ Lindsay Planer

録音 | モノラル／ステレオ (Live)