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| World Premier of Lost Monk-Coltrane Concert A newly-discovered recording of an historic concert featuring jazz giants Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane will be broadcast for the first time on Friday, September 9 exclusively on SIRIUS Satellite Radio. The concert at New York's Carnegie Hall on November 29, 1957 featured the Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane, and was recorded by Voice of America for an overseas radio broadcast. The tapes were poorly labeled, stored away and unheard until January 2005, when they were located at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. The 51-minute recording of the concert, Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall, will be released by Blue Note Records in conjunction with Thelonious Records on September 27, 2005. SIRIUS channel Pure Jazz 72 will broadcast this landmark recording during The Blue Note Hour with Bruce Lundvall on Friday, September 9 at 6 pm ET. (Repeat broadcasts are scheduled for Sat., Sept. 10 at 11 pm ET and on Sunday, Sept. 11 at 9 am ET.) T.S. Monk, son of the late Thelonious Monk, will be Lundvall's special guest for this exclusive, world premiere broadcast. ”Jazz lovers across the U.S. will have the first opportunity to hear this extraordinary concert on SIRIUS, ” said Lundvall, president and CEO of EMI Jazz and Classics, which includes the Blue Note Record label. “The discovery of this recording has been called 'a Dead Sea Scroll of 20th century popular music, ' and now we can bring it to a new generation thanks to SIRIUS' 21st century digital satellite radio system.” The recording is also notable because there is little recorded documentation of Monk's quartet with Coltrane that has been available. At Carnegie Hall is the first and only full-length high-quality recording of one of the most legendary collaborations in jazz history. The concert, a benefit for the Morningside Community Center in Harlem, featured two sets, with the repertoire comprising “Monk's Mood, ” “Evidence, ” “Crepuscule with Nellie, ” “Nutty, ” “Epistrophy, ” “Bye-ya, ” “Sweet & Lovely, ” “Blue Monk, ” and an incomplete second take on “Epistrophy.” SIRIUS Senior Vice President of Music Programming Steve Blatter said, “Providing the premiere broadcast of this recording before it is available to the public is exactly the kind of unique and compelling content that SIRIUS subscribers enjoy.” write your comments about the article :: © 2005 Jazz News :: home page |