Showing posts with label Thelonious Monk compositions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thelonious Monk compositions. Show all posts

2/11/2016

Riverside Records Jazz Label Discography


These 4 Box Sets together cover about 60 albums. Piratebay torrents:
Bill Evans / FLAC 4.2GB / MP3 1.1GB - 10 albums
Wes Montgomery MP3 1.1GB - 10 albums
Thelonious Monk MP3 1.3GB - 20 albums
Cannonball Adderley MP3 1.3GB - 16 albums


Riverside Records released about 290 albums during their existence.  The following torrent is itself 70 albums released by other artists on the label.  Most of the Riverside catalog is out of print.  Much of it has never been issued on CD even once.  This is some of the greatest music ever recorded, and it's vastly underheard.  Musicians like Art Blakey, Abbey Lincoln, Tadd Dameron, Clark Terry, Chet Baker, Jimmy Heath.  Some of the other rare recordings included:

Harlem Banjo! - Elmer Snowden Quartet
The Dynamic Sound Patterns of the Rod Levitt Orchestra
Devil May Care -Teri Thornton
Budd Johnson and the Four Brass Giants
Living Legends Chicago - Albert Wynn
Living Legends Chicago - Little Brother Montgomery
Living Legends New Orleans - Percy Humphrey
Living Legends New Orleans Bourbon Street - Louis Cottrell

Encoding:  All MP3: From CD (when available), LAME (when available), highest bitrates possible

3/19/2012

Marion Brown - Soul Eyes (Baystate)



1. Sunshine Road {Marion Brown} (9:14)
2. Soul Eyes {Mal Waldron} (10:15)
3. Body And Soul {Heyman, Sour, Eyton & Green} (7:14)
4. Afrisa {Marion Brown} (5:18)
5. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat {Charles Mingus} (8:40)
6. Blue Monk {Thelonious Monk} (11:25)

Marion Brown (as) Kenny Barron (p) Cecil McBee (b) Philly Joe Jones (d)
Recorded 14th & 15th November, 1978 at Sound Ideas Studios, New York City

1/15/2012

Gil Evans - Great Jazz Standards


01 Davenport Blues (Beiderbecke) 4:25
02 Straight, No Chaser (Monk) 6:19
03 Ballad of the Sad Young Men (Landesman, Wolf) 4:00
04 Joy Spring (Brown) 2:49
05 Django (Lewis) 8:05
06 Chant of the Weed (Redman) 4:25
07 La Nevada (Theme) (Evans) 6:15
Recorded in New York on February 5, 1959 (tracks 3,4,6,7) and early 1959 (tracks 1,2,5)

[1], [2], [5]
trumpet : Johnny Coles, Louis Mucci, Allen Smith
trombone : Bill Elton, Curtis Fuller, Dick Lieb
french horn : Bob Northern
tuba : Bill Barber
soprano saxophone : Steve Lacy
reeds : Al Block
piano : Gil Evans
guitar : Chuck Wayne
bass : Dick Carter
drums : Dennis Charles

[3], [4], [6], [7]
trumpet : Johnny Coles, Louis Mucci, Danny Stiles
trombone : Jimmy Cleveland, Curtis Fuller, Rod Levitt
french horn : Earl Chapin
tuba : Bill Barber
soprano saxophone : Steve Lacy
clarinet, tenor saxophone : Budd Johnson
reeds : Ed Caine
piano : Gil Evans
guitar : Ray Crawford
bass : Tommy Potter
drums : Elvin Jones

11/02/2011

Steve Lacy - Evidence (1961)



Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, November 14, 1961

Steve Lacy (soprano saxophone). Don Cherry (trumpet). Carl Brown (acoustic bass). Billy Higgins (drums)

7/14/2011

Interpretations of Monk (4CD, DIW Records)




All-Star tribute to Thelonious Monk at the Columbia U. NYC 11/1/81
The band is Don Cherry, Steve Lacy, Charlie Rouse, Roswell Rudd, Richard Davis, and Ben Riley (disc 1 & 3) or Ed Blackwell (disc 2 & 4)! The 1st set (Disc 1) they are led by Muhal Richard Abrams on piano The 2nd set (Disc 2) by Barry Harris on piano The 3rd set (Disc 3) by Anthony Davis on piano The 4th set (Disc 4) by Mal Waldron on piano

10/03/2010

Sphere: Gary Bartz, Charlie Rouse, Kenny Barron, et al - Thelonious Monk Tribute


Sphere (wikilink) was a group that began as a tribute to Thelonious Monk and ended up releasing a number of great albums. Consisting of Monk's longtime tenor saxophonist Charlie Rouse, pianist Kenny Barron, bassist Buster Williams, and Monk's former drummer Ben Riley, saxophonist Gary Bartz assumed Rouse's place in 1998.

Four in One (1982) Demonoid MP3
Sphere (1997) Demonoid MP3