"The Best Tenor You Never Heard: JR Monterose"

[Larry Kart]

Not to be pedantic, but I've edited the topic title to take account of the fact (previously mentioned above) that it's "JR," not "J.R." -- his given name is Frank Anthony Monterose Jr., and the "JR" comes from there; it's not initials.

[Dave James]

If you are at all interested in hearing JR Monterose circa 1980, I would recommend looking into the website Nico pointed out earlier in this thread (www.croscrane.com). I ordered five of the six CD's they have availble. All are live recordings but issued in good to excellent sound, along the lines of In Action, Live with the Joe Abodeely Trio and incalculably better than Live at the Tender Trap. The ones I bought were Nightingale, Buzzy, Jazz On The Quarry, My Old Flame - Live at the Gemini Cafe and Just Friends Vol. 4 Live at the Gemini Cafe. I thought I had just about all the Monterose that was available, but these are very welcome additions to my collection. BTW, there are brief sound samples on the website.

Up over and out.

[Indestructible!]

any opinions on the six (!?) monterose albums available through this site? has anyone ordered from there?

http://www.croscrane.com/

lineups like this one

jr monterose, tenor sax

walter donnaruma, piano

teddy kotick, bass

eddie robinson, drums

donnaruma, never heard of him, apparently produced these cds...

Damn, Niko, thanks for this link! I just ordered "Jazz on the Quarry" and "Just Friends"... but will likely order all of them before too long. I'll report back when I receive them.

JR had some serious chops, no doubt about that. It'll be nice to hear him stretch out (I hope) on these live albums.

Cheers,

Shane

[Late]

Is the attached only available on vinyl?

[Late]

And I'm listening to David's show right now. Nice.

There's got to be a way to hear the Abodeely stuff without buying the Fresh Sound package. (Probably is; I just don't know it.)