http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/25/arts/music/25jazz.html
"On the tapes, Monk is Monk, his pianistic style basically formed at least 10 years before, with its sudden drawls and rhythmic hesitations. He lets Coltrane solo at length with very little accompaniment; the saxophonist plays rows and rows of original licks and runs, built with blizzards of 16th notes. The notable exception is Coltrane's solo on 'Blue Monk.' Through 10 blues choruses, he builds an even crescendo of logic, letting down his guard and relying less on his stock phrases. (The other songs on the tape, from the evening's two sets, are 'Monk's Mood,' 'Evidence,' 'Crepuscule With Nellie,' 'Nutty,' 'Epistrophy,' 'Bye-Ya,' 'Sweet and Lovely' and a truncated second version of 'Epistrophy.')
"The music was discovered by accident, during the routine practice of transferring tape from the Library of Congress's Voice of America collection to digital sound files for preservation. . . ."
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 25 April 2005 05:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Monday, 25 April 2005 05:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 25 April 2005 05:30 (eighteen years ago) link
""There's always more," Mr. Appelbaum said sagely, in a recent interview in his recording laboratory at the Library of Congress's recorded sound division. He repeated the phrase so often during the afternoon that it became a mantra."
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 25 April 2005 05:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 25 April 2005 05:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Monday, 25 April 2005 05:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Monday, 25 April 2005 06:11 (eighteen years ago) link
eep! then get off your applebaum and find them out! you'd think they'd have a whole slew of interns sifting through old jazz and classical vinyls looking for treasure.
Hmmm... Kinda makes me wonder: does anyone have any contacts at the Library of Congress' Voice of America Collection?
― poortheatre (poortheatre), Monday, 25 April 2005 06:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Monday, 25 April 2005 06:15 (eighteen years ago) link
(Insert image of the Ark of the Covenant or whatever that was again in "Raiders" sitting in a dusty huge warehouse of the Smithosonian here.)
― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Monday, 25 April 2005 06:20 (eighteen years ago) link
tho i doubt the loc has enough resources to "find" shit as immediately as poortheatre would like, considering us gov't budget deficits/iraq and "war on terra" spending/declining dollah, etc. like i would like to see more stuff discovered but be realistic. not even private record companies have enough resource-wise to go thru their entire stocks (gonna take the current owners of restless' back catalog 3 years to find all their masters, etc.)
"we have top men working on it.""who?""top... men..."
CUE TO DUDE PUSHING CRATE WITH ARK IN GIGANTIC GOVT WAREHOUSE WITH OTHER SIMILAR CRATES
― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 25 April 2005 06:24 (eighteen years ago) link
best. line. ever.
― poortheatre (poortheatre), Monday, 25 April 2005 06:26 (eighteen years ago) link
"indy, the ark is loaded into the truck""truck?!? what truck?!!?"
and
"asps, velly dangerous.""snakes, why'd it have to be snakes?"
and some others i'm blanking on now.
― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 25 April 2005 06:28 (eighteen years ago) link
"Our boys runnin' round the desert with goddamn coffee cans for armor" vs. Undiscovered Zappa Bootleg
― poortheatre (poortheatre), Monday, 25 April 2005 06:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 25 April 2005 06:33 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.cafepress.com/content/products/img-bleed/clear.gif
― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 25 April 2005 06:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 25 April 2005 06:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Monday, 25 April 2005 06:54 (eighteen years ago) link
Damn poortheatre, you just gave me the only tiny glimmer of pro-war sentiment I've ever felt in my life.
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 25 April 2005 07:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Monday, 25 April 2005 10:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 25 April 2005 13:17 (eighteen years ago) link
Blue Note Records has emerged the triumphant owner of a 1957 recording by the Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane, trumping the interest of Sony BMG's Legacy Recordings and Verve Records. The tentatively titled "Thelonious Monk With John Coltrane: 1957 Concert" is due Sept. 27.
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 01:17 (eighteen years ago) link
The Complete Sun Ship Sessions
― combination hair (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 30 September 2013 15:20 (ten years ago) link
Got that (the CD) a couple months ago. Essential, and utterly fascinating to hear it as a work-in-progress (including studio chatter!).
Weirdly/sadly, this is the only surviving tape of a complete Coltrane studio session.
― hopping and bopping to the krokodil rot (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 30 September 2013 15:27 (ten years ago) link