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This never-before heard jazz classic documents one of the most
historically important working bands in all of Jazz history, a band that
was both short-lived and, until now, thought to be frustratingly
under-recorded. The concert, which took place at the famed New York hall
on November 29, 1957, was preserved on newly-discovered tapes made by
Voice of America for a later radio broadcast that were located at the
Library of Congress in Washington DC earlier this year.

Monk and Coltrane had been working together for a solid four months by
the time they set foot on stage at Carnegie Hall that night. By all
accounts, Coltrane had been tentative early on in the Five Spot run,
challenged at first by Monk’s quirky melodies and chord changes, but the
51 minutes of music captured in pristine sound quality on At Carnegie
Hall, present the quartet, which was completed by bassist Ahmed
Abdul-Malik and drummer Shadow Wilson, at the height of their powers.

The tapes from that evening at Carnegie Hall were inadequately labeled,
filed away amongst the Voice of America’s vast collection of recordings,
and apparently forgotten until January 2005 when Larry Applebaum, a
supervisor and jazz specialist at the Library of Congress, came upon
them by accident during the routine process of digitally transferring
the Library’s collection for preservation purposes. Applebaum noticed a
set of tapes simply labeled “sp. Event 11/29/57 carnegie jazz concert
(#1),” with one of the tapes barring the sole marking “T. Monk.” Until
now, remarkably little recorded documentation of Monk’s quartet with
Coltrane has been known to exist, a fact that makes this finding all the
more significant.

Kurt Albershardt wrote:
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I heard about this on NPR today. Sounds pretty cool.

I was going to post a link to the recording, but I think it won't be on
the site until tomorrow.

good stuff. if you find out when it gets released as a consumer cd
purchase, let us know.

wrote:
good stuff. if you find out when it gets released as a consumer cd
purchase, let us know.

it is now released!

I sat down and listened to the whole recod the other night. It's
amazing. the musical interplay is of the highest caliber and the sonic
quality is stunning. Sonically it's the "Let It Be Naked" of 1950's
Jazz.

I heard on NPR that the other folks on the bill that night were Billy
Holiday, Ray Charles, Sonny Rollins, Chet Baker, and Dizzy....

Wonder if they taped the whole evening??