Miles & Monk at Newport

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Miles & Monk at Newport was a combined album of a Miles Davis appearance at Newport with an appearance of Thelonious Monk, from the LP era. These are two different performances at two different times. Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk do not perform together on this LP.

Both sides represented live appearances at the Newport Jazz Festival.

On the first side of the LP was a series of high tempo performances of bebop tunes and other staples of the Davis live repertoire from 1958. The performance was contemporaneous with Davis' Milestones album. Aside from the 1973 release Jazz at the Plaza (also a 1958 concert) during the LP era, this was the only legitimate (non-bootleg) recording of a live Davis combo performance earlier than the 1960 Blackhawk recordings. As such, this performance and Jazz at the Plaza were the only legitimate live recordings representing the Kind of Blue sextet.

Side 1 Compositions (in original LP configuration):

Ah-Leu-Cha (5:55, composed by Charlie Parker)
Straight, No Chaser (8:52, composed by Thelonious Monk)
Fran-Dance (7:08, composed by Miles Davis)
Two Bass Hit (4:19, composed by Dizzy Gillespie and John Lewis)

On the second side were a few numbers by Thelonious Monk's combo, from a 1963 Newport appearance. It featured the idiosyncratic appearance by clarinetist Pee Wee Russell.

Side 2 Compositions:

Nutty (13:57, composed by Thelonious Monk)
Blue Monk (11:18, composed by Thelonious Monk)

Personnel

Side One Personnel:

Side Two personnel:

Discographical notes

Original mono and stereo catalog numbers for the album: (Columbia CL 2178, CS 8978).

In the 2000s the album was released with the Davis Newport performances expanded and the Monk portion released separately on the 2CD Monk compilation Live at Newport 1963-65.

Miles & Monk at Newport

Personnel

Discographical notes

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