Thelonious Monk
Big Band And Quartet In Concert
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Date:  1964
Length:  1:47:39
Format:  CD
Genre:  Jazz
  Category:  jazz
  Ref#:  0956
    Track Listing:
      CD1:
      1.  
      		 Bye-Ya (previously unreleased)    11:23
      2.  
      		 I Mean You    12:51
      3.  
      		 Evidence    13:54
      4.  
      		 Epistrophy    2:06
      5.  
      		 (When It's) Darkness On The Delta    5:15
      6.  
      		 Played Twice    7:48
      CD2:
      1.  
      		 Mysterioso (previously unreleased)    9:43
      2.  
      		 Epistrophy    1:17
      3.  
      		 Light Blue (previously unreleased)    12:53
      4.  
      		 Oska T.    13:19
      5.  
      		 Four In One    14:43
      6.  
      		 Epistrophy    2:23
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      Arranger Hall Overton did a brilliant job of translating Thelonious Monk's distinctive compositions (and even a piano transcription) to a big band, both for an earlier Town Hall concert and for these 1963 recordings at Philharmonic Hall. Monk was at the peak of his belated celebrity, and he and the other musicians tear into this demanding music with a mix of authority and joyous abandon. Cornetist Thad Jones and altoist Phil Woods are among the big band's fine soloists, while Monk's regular drummer, Frankie Dunlop, is outstanding, a genuinely melodic player who could inspire the big band as well as the working quartet. --Stuart Broomer
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