Tracklisting:
Stardust
Exactly Like You
Uptown
Body And Soul
I Can't Give You Anything But Love
Indiana
Personnel:
Joe Guy (tp)
Don Byas (ts)
Thelonious Monk (p)
Helen Humes (vo)
Kenny Clarke (d)
unknown accompanists
Note:
Recorded live at "Minton's Playhouse", NYC, 1941
Midnight at Minton's is a 1941 album by jazz musician Don Byas. It is a live recording of a jam session at Minton's Playhouse, the famous New York nightclub at which the emerging style of bebop was being pioneered.
It features one of the earliest known recordings of Thelonious Monk, who was then playing piano in Minton's house band.
The album is taken from private recordings made by Columbia University student Jerry Newman on a portable acetate disc recorder. Newman made the recordings for "Delayed on Disc" broadcasts on college radio station WKCR — the discs were rushed back to the radio studio shortly after being cut and presented in the style of a live broadcast from the venue.
In a review for Allmusic, Michael G. Nastos concludes that, "the music itself is priceless, the document of a transitional period from swing to bop, and some of the people that made it happen, especially the underappreciated genius Byas."
From Wikipedia
Album notes:
Personnel includes: Don Byas (tenor saxophone); Helen Humes (vocals); Joe Guy (trumpet); Thelonious Monk (piano); Kenny Clarke (drums).
Producer: Jerry Newman, Don Schlitten.
Reissue producer: Joe Fields.
Recorded at Minton's, New York, New York in 1941. Includes liner notes by Dan Morgenstern.
Digitally remastered by Malcolm Addey.
Tenor saxophone legend Don Byas is heard with great clarity on this, a relative jam session, as is vocalist Helen Humes (the first two cuts) and ostensible leader/trumpeter Joe Guy, whose high energy solos are very good in spots. Less audible in the mix are pianist Thelonious Monk and drummer Kenny Clarke, working in this band while bebop was fermenting. These two would lead the bop charge later in the '40s at Minton's Playhouse, the bebop concubine/jazz club in N.Y.C. The music is pretty much swing material, with Humes tossing in a ballad ("Stardust") and a bluesy number ("Exactly Like You") while the instrumental "Indiana" is all fired up, and they typically chill down "Body & Soul." Present on the dates is an unidentified tenor saxophonist and trumpeter tossing in his/her less than two-cents worth solos. Even annotator Dan Morgenstern, with his detailed and informative liner notes, can't ID the pair. The star is clearly Byas. His well-rounded tenor inflections and characteristic quarter-to-eight note slurve is on throughout the performance. He can be at once warm, witty, smooth, precise, and consistently wonderful. He's one of the first original jazz voices on his horn and emphatic to boot on these tunes. These are true club date "field recordings," from the then Columbia University student Jerry Newman's portable unit, replete with crowd noise in the background (one can hear Humes rebuffing a heckler/admirer) annoying kicking of the stage area, and a brief drop out or distortion. Total time is barely 39 minutes. But the overall sound quality is quite acceptable, at most times remarkable. The music itself is priceless, the document of a transitional period from swing to bop, and some of the people that made it happen, especially the underappreciated genius Byas.
By Michael G. Nastos (AMG)
Editorial reviews:
...really swinging....Byas' rich tone plays well off Guy's rather tart sound. Monk, then 23, was part of the house band and gets his best solo on the latter number ['Exactly Like You']....really puts you stage side...
JazzTimes (03/01/2000)
...really swinging....Byas' rich tone plays well off Guy's rather tart sound. Monk, then 23, was part of the house band and gets his best solo on the latter number ['Exactly Like You']....really puts you stage side...
JazzTimes (03/01/2000)
Stardust
Exactly Like You
Uptown
Body And Soul
I Can't Give You Anything But Love
Indiana
Personnel:
Joe Guy (tp)
Don Byas (ts)
Thelonious Monk (p)
Helen Humes (vo)
Kenny Clarke (d)
unknown accompanists
Note:
Recorded live at "Minton's Playhouse", NYC, 1941
Midnight at Minton's is a 1941 album by jazz musician Don Byas. It is a live recording of a jam session at Minton's Playhouse, the famous New York nightclub at which the emerging style of bebop was being pioneered.
It features one of the earliest known recordings of Thelonious Monk, who was then playing piano in Minton's house band.
The album is taken from private recordings made by Columbia University student Jerry Newman on a portable acetate disc recorder. Newman made the recordings for "Delayed on Disc" broadcasts on college radio station WKCR — the discs were rushed back to the radio studio shortly after being cut and presented in the style of a live broadcast from the venue.
In a review for Allmusic, Michael G. Nastos concludes that, "the music itself is priceless, the document of a transitional period from swing to bop, and some of the people that made it happen, especially the underappreciated genius Byas."
From Wikipedia
Album notes:
Personnel includes: Don Byas (tenor saxophone); Helen Humes (vocals); Joe Guy (trumpet); Thelonious Monk (piano); Kenny Clarke (drums).
Producer: Jerry Newman, Don Schlitten.
Reissue producer: Joe Fields.
Recorded at Minton's, New York, New York in 1941. Includes liner notes by Dan Morgenstern.
Digitally remastered by Malcolm Addey.
Tenor saxophone legend Don Byas is heard with great clarity on this, a relative jam session, as is vocalist Helen Humes (the first two cuts) and ostensible leader/trumpeter Joe Guy, whose high energy solos are very good in spots. Less audible in the mix are pianist Thelonious Monk and drummer Kenny Clarke, working in this band while bebop was fermenting. These two would lead the bop charge later in the '40s at Minton's Playhouse, the bebop concubine/jazz club in N.Y.C. The music is pretty much swing material, with Humes tossing in a ballad ("Stardust") and a bluesy number ("Exactly Like You") while the instrumental "Indiana" is all fired up, and they typically chill down "Body & Soul." Present on the dates is an unidentified tenor saxophonist and trumpeter tossing in his/her less than two-cents worth solos. Even annotator Dan Morgenstern, with his detailed and informative liner notes, can't ID the pair. The star is clearly Byas. His well-rounded tenor inflections and characteristic quarter-to-eight note slurve is on throughout the performance. He can be at once warm, witty, smooth, precise, and consistently wonderful. He's one of the first original jazz voices on his horn and emphatic to boot on these tunes. These are true club date "field recordings," from the then Columbia University student Jerry Newman's portable unit, replete with crowd noise in the background (one can hear Humes rebuffing a heckler/admirer) annoying kicking of the stage area, and a brief drop out or distortion. Total time is barely 39 minutes. But the overall sound quality is quite acceptable, at most times remarkable. The music itself is priceless, the document of a transitional period from swing to bop, and some of the people that made it happen, especially the underappreciated genius Byas.
By Michael G. Nastos (AMG)
Editorial reviews:
...really swinging....Byas' rich tone plays well off Guy's rather tart sound. Monk, then 23, was part of the house band and gets his best solo on the latter number ['Exactly Like You']....really puts you stage side...
JazzTimes (03/01/2000)
...really swinging....Byas' rich tone plays well off Guy's rather tart sound. Monk, then 23, was part of the house band and gets his best solo on the latter number ['Exactly Like You']....really puts you stage side...
JazzTimes (03/01/2000)
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