The Thelonious Monk Quartet Monk in Tokyo (2 LP)

REISSUE, expected to be available from summer 2023.
When this double LP suddenly appeared on the shelves in the jazz departments in the seventies of the last century, it had become quite quiet around the 'monk'. Concerts? No way! News from the studio? By no means! The attempts of various managers, festival organizers and club owners to lure Monk out of his apartment, to say goodbye to the TV screen in order to present new or old on the concert stages of the world, all failed.
The 1963 tour with the dates in Japan and this album compiled from it offered the normal 'concert routine', but the long-played themes spiced with standards such as "Just A Gigolo" or "I'm Gettin' Sentimental Over You" made the audience and the collectors sit up and take notice. And: weren't "Blue Monk", "Epistrophy" and "Bemsha Swing" already known, often heard and played standards at that time?
Happy memory for Japanese fans who were able to experience May 21, 1963 live in Tokyo's Sankei Hall! Happy LP listeners who can put this re-release on the shelf in 2016! What does the Monk fan want – and who wouldn't be? –more?

Features:

• 180g Virgin Vinyl
• High Quality Pressing
• Pure Analogue Audiophile Mastering
• Double LP
• Pressed at Pallas in Germany
• Gatefold jacket

Musicians:

• Thelonious Monk, piano
• Charlie Rouse, tenor sax
• John Ore, bass
• Frankie Dunlop, drums

Selections:

Side A
1. Straight No Chaser
2. Pannonica
3. Just A Gigolo
Side B
1. Evidence
2. Jackie - Ing
3. Bemsha Swing
4. Epistrophy
Side C
1. I'm Gettin' Sentimental Over You
2. Hack bag
Side D
1. Blue Monk
2. Epistrophy