Thelonious Monk, Herbie Nichols TrioFeaturing: The Gigi Gryce Quartet
Thelonious Monk / Herbie Nichols (LP)
LabelSavoy JazzGenreJazz & Improvisation
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condition (record/cover): EX+ / VG+ (minimal edges and ring wear)
Postcard included.
Two of the most singular composers in the music, paired on one record, and one of them still almost unknown. Thelonious Monk needs no introduction; Herbie Nichols spent his life playing Dixieland gigs to pay rent, recorded a handful of trio sides that nobody bought, and died of leukaemia in 1963 at forty-four, leaving behind a body of compositions as strange, precise and personal as anything Monk wrote. Hearing them side by side makes the comparison unavoidable and entirely fair. Nichols is lighter in touch and more oblique harmonically. He deserved a career and did not get one.
Savoy pressing. Worth it for the Nichols alone.
Release notes
#A1 to A4 recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, N.J. on October 15, 1955; #B1 to B7 recorded in New York City on March 6, 1952 #B2, B5: Previously unissued #B7; Previously issued only on 78.
| A1 | Brake' Sake | 4:45 | |
| A2 | Gallop's Gallop | 5:31 | |
| A3 | Shuffle Boil | 5:02 | |
| A4 | Nica's Tempo | 6:06 | |
| B1 | Who's Blues | 3:00 | |
| B2 | 'S Wonderful | 2:15 | |
| B3 | 'S Wonderful (Alternate Take) | 2:45 | |
| B4 | Nichols And Dimes | 2:31 | |
| B5 | Nichols And DImes (Alternate Take) | 2:47 | |
| B6 | My Lady Gingersnap | 2:47 | |
| B7 | Good Story Blues | 2:52 |
- Gigi Gryce
- Alto Saxophone (A1 to A4)
- Dick Smith
- Art Direction
- Chocolate Williams
- Bass (B1 to B7), Vocals (B6, B7)
- Percy Heath
- Bass (A1 to A4)
- Art Blakey
- Drums (A1 to A4)
- Shadow Wilson
- Drums (B1 to B7)
- Rudy Van Gelder
- Engineer (A1 to A4)
- Danny Barker
- Guitar (B1 to B7)
- Joe Brescio
- Lacquer Cut By, Mastered By
- Herbie Nichols
- Piano (B1 to B7)
- Thelonious Monk
- Piano (A1 to A4)
- Jules Colomby
- Producer (A1 to A4)
- Sam Meltzer
- Producer (B1 to B7)
- Michael Cuscuna
- Reissue Producer, Sleeve Notes
