Milt Jackson and the Thelonious Monk Quintet

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Milt Jackson and the Thelonious Monk Quintet
BLP 1509 Jackson.jpg
Compilation album by
Milt Jackson
Released1956
Recorded
  • July 2, 1948
  • July 23, 1951
  • April 7, 1952
Genre Jazz
Label Blue Note
BLP 1509
Producer Alfred Lion
Milt Jackson chronology
Milt Jackson Quartet
(1955)		Milt Jackson and the Thelonious Monk Quintet
(1956)		 Opus de Jazz
(1956)
Wizard of the Vibes
Wizard of the Vibes.jpg
Studio album by
Milt Jackson
Released1952
Recorded
  • July 23, 1951
  • April 7, 1952
Genre Jazz
Label Blue Note
BLP 5011
Producer Alfred Lion
Thelonious Monk 10-inch LP chronology
Genius of Modern Music: Volume 1
(1951)		Wizard of the Vibes
(1952)		 Genius of Modern Music: Volume 2
(1952)

Milt Jackson and the Thelonious Monk Quintet is an album by American jazz vibraphonist Milt Jackson, recorded on July 2, 1948, July 23, 1951 and April 7, 1952 and released on Blue Note in 1956. The latter two sessions were originally released on ten-inch LP as Wizard of the Vibes (1952).

Contents

Background

Recording

The sessions were the work of The Thelonious Monk Quintet (the July 2, 1948 and July 23, 1951 sessions) and The Modern Jazz Quartet plus Lou Donaldson (a 1952 session). The album has been recompiled and expanded three additional times, with various tracks from these sessions added and deleted.

The tracks from the Modern Jazz Quartet plus Lou Donaldson consisted of John Lewis on piano, Percy Heath on bass, Kenny Clarke on drums, Milt Jackson on vibraphone, and Lou Donaldson on alto saxophone. The tracks with the Thelonious Monk Quintet were Thelonious Monk on piano, John Simmons on bass, Shadow Wilson on drums, and Milt Jackson on vibraphone—with Kenny "Pancho" Hagood singing on the tracks "All the Things You Are" and "I Should Care".

Release history

The original 1952 10" LP was expanded to a 12" LP in 1956, and retitled Milt Jackson and the Thelonious Monk Quintet with a cover designed by Reid Miles, his first for the label. In 1989, the cover and title of the 1956 version were used for a CD featuring the complete 1948 and 1952 sessions, but the 1951 Monk Session was moved to Monk's Genius of Modern Music: Volume 2 . The 2001 album Milt Jackson: Wizard of the Vibes used the cover art and title of the original 1952 album, but contained a re-ordered and remastered version of the contents of the 1989 CD.

In each formulation, the album contained Blue Note Thelonious Monk-led performances unavailable on the parallel editions of Genius of Modern Music.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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The Penguin Guide to Jazz described the tracks with Monk as "classics, rising to their greatest height with the riveting version of 'I Mean You'." [2]

The AllMusic reviewer wrote that "Jackson's inventive playing throughout both dates makes this an important CD in his considerable discography, so it should be a part of any bop fan's collection." [1]

Track listings

Original release (Blue Note BLP 1509, 12", 1956)

Side 1
No.TitleMusicDate recordedLength
1."Lillie" April 7, 1952 
2."Tahiti" April 7, 1952 
3."What's New?" April 7, 1952 
4."Bags' Groove" April 7, 1952 
5."On the Scene"Lou DonaldsonApril 7, 1952 
6."Willow Weep for Me" Ann Ronnell July 23, 1951 
Side 2
No.TitleDate recordedLength
1."Criss-Cross"July 23, 1951 
2."Eronel"July 23, 1951 
3."Misterioso" (alternate master)July 2, 1948 
4."Evidence"July 2, 1948 
5."Lillie" (alternate master)April 7, 1952 
6."Four in One" (alternate master)July 23, 1951 

CD reissues

All music is composed by Milt Jackson, except as noted.

1989 reissue
No.TitleLyricsMusicDate recordedLength
1."Tahiti"  April 7, 19523:26
2."Lillie"  April 7, 19523:13
3."Lillie" (alternate take)  April 7, 19523:15
4."Bags' Groove"  April 7, 19523:03
5."What's New?" Johnny Burke Bob Haggart April 7, 19523:08
6."What's New?" (alternate take)BurkeHaggartApril 7, 19523:10
7."Don't Get Around Much Anymore"  Duke Ellington April 7, 19522:58
8."Don't Get Around Much Anymore" (alternate take) EllingtonApril 7, 19522:56
9."On the Scene" Lou DonaldsonApril 7, 19522:40
10."Evidence" Thelonious MonkJuly 2, 19482:31
11."Misterioso" MonkJuly 2, 19483:11
12."Misterioso" (alternate take) MonkJuly 2, 19482:43
13."Epistrophy" 
July 2, 19483:05
14."I Mean You" MonkJuly 2, 19482:44
15."All the Things You Are" Roger Hammerstein II Jerome Kern July 2, 19482:57
16."I Should Care" (alternate take) Sammy Cahn
July 2, 19483:00
17."I Should Care"Cahn
  • Stordahl
  • Weston
July 2, 19482:59

Milt Jackson: Wizard of the Vibes (Blue Note LP 5011, 10", 1952)

All music is composed by Milt Jackson, except as noted.

Side 1
No.TitleMusicDate recordedLength
1."Tahiti" April 7, 1952 
2."Lillie" April 7, 1952 
3."Criss-Cross"Thelonious MonkJuly 23, 1951 
4."Willow Weep for Me" Ann Ronnell July 23, 1951 
Side 2
No.TitleLyricsMusicDate recordedLength
1."What's New?" Johnny Burke Bob Haggart April 7, 1952 
2."Bags' Groove"  April 7, 1952 
3."On the Scene" Lou DonaldsonApril 7, 1952 
4."Eronel" 
July 23, 1951 

Personnel

Musicians

July 2, 1948

July 23, 1951

April 7, 1952

Technical personnel

Original

Reissue

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Dryden, Ken. "Wizard of the Vibes - Milt Jackson | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 28 December 2011.
  2. 1 2 Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 754. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
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