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Prestige

Thelonious Monk Quintet

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Recorded1954
LabelPrestige
CatalogPRLP 180
Released1954
Personnel7 credited players
Discogsmaster 418902

The record

A ten-inch Prestige from 1954: Ray Copeland's trumpet and Frank Foster's tenor over Monk's piano, Curly Russell on bass, Art Blakey pushing from behind. Rudy Van Gelder engineered. Four titles is all a ten-inch side holds, and 'Hackensack' is the one to drop the needle on -- horns and rhythm both working the same jagged corners.

Tracks

  1. We See
  2. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
  3. Locomotive
  4. Hackensack

Session personnel

  • Curly Russell — Bass
  • Art Blakey — Drums
  • Rudy Van Gelder — Engineer
  • Thelonious Monk — Piano
  • Frank Foster — Tenor Saxophone
  • Ray Copeland — Trumpet
  • The Thelonious Monk Quintet

Contemporary reception

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Pressings

1954Prestige · PRLP 180 — Vinyl LP 10" earliest on file
1954Prestige · PRLP 180 — Vinyl, LP, 10"
1955Esquire · 20-039 — Vinyl, LP, 10", Mono
1961Barclay · 84 082 — Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Reissue, Mono
Esquire · 20-049 — Vinyl, LP, 10"

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