I'm going to try to seed some rare-ish Monk shows from my collection. This
week I'm going to seed five shows (one per day) from 1967, the year of
Monk's Nonet. I'll probably also seed a few more shows the following week.
Any attempts to clean up the sound on these old recordings is welcomed,
appreciated, and encouraged. I hope everyone enjoys them!

One quick note about burning these onto CDs. Most of the Monk shows I'm
going to seed in the coming days are pretty short, so instead of burning
each one onto a separate CD, you may want to wait through a few posts and
then burn several shows onto one longer CD.

Thelonious Monk Nonet
unknown venue
Copenhagen, Denmark
October 31, 1967

The sound here is not great. I would grade this around B-. It is difficult
to hear all of the instruments, but Monk's piano can still be heard pretty well,
and the soloists are fairly clear, though a bit distant-sounding.

01 Evidence
02 Ruby My Dear
03 We See
04 Epistrophy
05 Oska.T
06 Blue Monk

Lineup:
Thelonius Monk - Piano
Charlie Rouse - Tenor Sax
Ray Copeland - Trumpet
Johnny Griffin - Tenor Sax
Jimmy Cleveland - Trombone
Phil Woods - Alto Sax
Clark Terry - Trumpet
Larry Gales - Bass
Ben Riley - Drums

lineage:
audience recording > ? > flac on DVD in trade > Dime


NOTE: I'm always a bit wary when seeding older jazz, because it can be tough
to tell what has been officially released. I have checked as thoroughly as
I know how. However, if you do find that this or any other shows that I've
seeded has been officially released, please PM me so that I can alert the
Dime authorities and have it taken down.

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Though I'm posting these Monk shows mostly for the joy of sharing music, I
also have a somewhat more insidious motive. I'd like to scare up some
other Monk material that is out there, but hasn't really made it to a
wide audience. Most specifically, I'm interested in the shows below, but
please post any Monk you can, if you think others will enjoy it:

May 6, 1961 - Manchester, England
May 10, 1961 - Bern, Switzerland
March 8, 1962 - Paris, France
September 23, 1962 - Apollo Theater, NYC
March 1, 1963 - Baden-Baden, Germany
March 8, 1965 - Sendesaal, Bremen, Germany
March 14, 1965 - Marquee Club, London, England
August 21, 1965 - Place Des Arts, Montreal, Canada
April 4, 1966 - Warsaw, Poland
February 1969 - Paris, France (solo TV performance)
November 14, 1970 - Jazz Expo, Paris, France