Jazz / Bop
Recorded: Apr 12, 1957-Jul 1957, Reeves Sound Studios, New York, New York
When Monk and Trane spent six months of 1957 working together at New York's Five Spot Cafe, it was an historic event which certainly should have been exhaustively recorded. But nonmusical conflicts made that impossible, leaving as the only permanent reminders of this momentous encounter the three remarkable quartet selections that highlight this album.
Thelonious Monk - piano
John Coltrane - tenor saxophone
Gigi Gryce - alto saxophone
Coleman Hawkins - tenor saxophone
Ray Copeland - trumpet
Wilbur Ware - bass
Shadow Wilson
Art Blakey - drums |
