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Thelonious Monk - The Complete Thelonious Monk At The It Club (2009) {180g 4LP BOX Mosaic}

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Thelonious Monk - The Complete Thelonious Monk At The It Club (2009) {180g 4LP BOX Mosaic}

Thelonious Monk - The Complete Thelonious Monk At The It Club (2009) {180g 4LP BOX Mosaic}
Vinyl rip @ 24/96 | FLAC(tracks) – 3.63 Gb | Full Scans – 10 Mb | Label: Mosaic Records
Genre: Jazz | RAR 5% | Rec. CAT #MRLP 3001

The Thelonious Monk Quartet with Charlie Rouse lasted eleven years. October 31 and November 1, 1964 at the It Club in Los Angeles were just two more nights out of thousands for them, except when it comes to Monk, there were no ordinary nights. Rouse in his sixth year with Monk had hit his stride, truly becoming Monk's musical alter ego. Remarkably, drummer Ben Riley had joined the quartet at the beginning of 1964 and bassist Larry Gales had only logged in a month at the time of this taping; yet they already show the first signs of collective greatness on these evenings.
Thelonious Monk - The Complete Thelonious Monk At The It Club (2009) {180g 4LP BOX Mosaic}

The band plays standards, many of Monk's famous tunes, a few lesser known items like "Gallop's Gallop" and "Blues Five Spot" and the recent compositions "Teo" and "Bright Mississippi." Propelled by Gales and Riley, Monk and Rouse deliver amazing ten-minute excursions on such Monk classics as "Nutty," "Rhythm-a-ning," and "Blue Monk."

Monk was at a particular high point pianistically during this gig; in fact, he went into a Los Angeles studio and recorded the album Solo Monk on the afternoons preceding and following the live taping. He is in full force throughout, but his playing is particularly superb on the standards "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You" and the previously unreleased "Sweet And Lovely.".
Thelonious Monk - The Complete Thelonious Monk At The It Club (2009) {180g 4LP BOX Mosaic}

Mosaic has returned to the original three-track tapes and mixed them down to beautiful sounding analog stereo masters, presenting the six sets they played that night as they happened.

Mosaic INFO

Personnel:
Thelonious Monk - piano
Charlie Rouse - tenor sax
Larry Gales - bass
Ben Riley - drums

tracklist:
Saturday – Set One:

A1 Blue Monk (11:18)
A2 Well, You Needn't (09:17)
B1 'Round Midnight (06:32)
B2 Rythym-A-Ning (10:09)
B3 Episrophy (Theme - Saturday Set One) (00:58)

Saturday – Set Two:
C1 Blues Five Spot (10:13)
C2 Bemsha Swing (08:34)
D1 Straight, No Chaser (07:15)
D2 Epistrophy (Theme - Saturday Set Two) (01:05)

Saturday – Set Three:
D3 Evidence (08:37)
E1 Sweet And Lovely (10:33)
E2 Nutty (10:48)
E3 Epistrophy (Theme - Saturday Set Three) (01:00)

Sunday – Set One:
F1 Teo (10:54)
F2 I'm Getting Sentimental Over You (12:28)
F3 Epistrophy (Theme - Sunday Set One) (00:56)

Sunday – Set Two:
G1 Misterioso (08:22)
G2 Gallop's Gallop (05:17)
G3 Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues-Are (09:01)
G4 Epistrophy (Theme - Sunday Set Two) (00:59)

Sunday – Set Three:
H1 Bright Mississippi (09:45)
H2 Just You, Just Me (06:14)
H3 All The Things You Are (06:40)
H4 Epistrophy (Theme - Sunday Set Three) (01:09)

All vinyl is cleaned on a VPI 16.5
Technics SL1200-MK5 (modified)
- Rega RB300 arm with RB700 wiring
- Michell Tecnoweight
- SoundSupports armboard
- Trans-Fi Audio Reso-Mat
Shure V15VxMR (with Jico stylus)
SimAudio Moon 110LP preamp
Native Instruments Audio4DJ USB interface
PC
Processing: Sound Forge 10, ClickRepair (manual mode only)

Notes:
Rather than presenting this material in 8 sides, or 4 albums, it is being presented in 6 sets, as it was originally performed.
There is 10 seconds of silence at the end of each set.


Thelonious Monk - The Complete Thelonious Monk At The It Club (2009) {180g 4LP BOX Mosaic}

Thelonious Monk - The Complete Thelonious Monk At The It Club (2009) {180g 4LP BOX Mosaic}


All thanks goes to the original releaser!