Monk Liner Notes

[ListeningToPrestige]

This is for my book on Prestige, but I'm looking for what must have been an album on Columbia. There's a very weird liner note on the back, from a noted jazz critic, where he talks about his teenager daughter hearing a Monk recording and saying "He's cool -- he sounds sort of like Tim Hardin." Or something like that. Ring a bell with anyone?

[JSngry]

[AllenLowe]

2 hours ago, ListeningToPrestige said:

This is for my book on Prestige, but I'm looking for what must have been an album on Columbia. There's a very weird liner note on the back, from a noted jazz critic, where he talks about his teenager daughter hearing a Monk recording and saying "He's cool -- he sounds sort of like Tim Hardin." Or something like that. Ring a bell with anyone?

who are you? Can you id yourself?

21 minutes ago, AllenLowe said:

who are you? Can you id yourself?

Sorry Tad, didn't realize that was you. It's not that exciting but I have one unknown Prestige anecdote that involves Weinstock, Miles, and Dave Schildkraut

Edited June 7, 2024 by AllenLowe

[ListeningToPrestige]

Jsngry -- Thanks a lot. Just what I was looking for.

 

[JSngry]

Happy to help. Looking forward to this book of yours!

You could always count on Zwerin and, especially, Ralph J. Gleason to get kissy-kissy warmfuzzy with "the kids" and to confer on them wisdom beyond their years...or, often, their capacity.

[ListeningToPrestige]

I wonder how often Monk's music got referred to as dreamy and sexy.

[hopkins]

For what it's worth, that album (Monk's Greatest Hits) is available on the Internet Archive. They have the liner notes in PDF format, which makes it easy to copy/paste the text if you want to quote it.

 

https://archive.org/details/cd_monks-greatest-hits_thelonious-monk

[felser]

Another Columbia move to make Monk relevant to the late 60's "youth" market:

[Ken Dryden]

Hopefully Monk was amused.

I remember reading that someone suggested that Cannonball Adderley be photographed cannonballing into a pool, but that idea was shot down in a hurry.

 

[Teasing the Korean]

13 minutes ago, Ken Dryden said:

Hopefully Monk was amused.

I remember reading that someone suggested that Cannonball Adderley be photographed cannonballing into a pool, but that idea was shot down in a hurry.

It didn't stop him from being photographed jogging in a track suit!  

20 minutes ago, felser said:

Another Columbia move to make Monk relevant to the late 60's "youth" market:

Love that album cover, and I think that was my first Monk album!  

[JSngry]

13 minutes ago, Teasing the Korean said:

Love that album cover, and I think that was my first Monk album!  

It (the cover) won a Grammy!

2 hours ago, ListeningToPrestige said:

I wonder how often Monk's music got referred to as dreamy and sexy.

Did anybody ask Nica about that?

[Ken Dryden]

Maybe we need to revive the worst album cover thread.

[John L]

This Monk cover has always haunted me

 

 

[Ken Dryden]

I've always considered this cover low budget by a third rate artist. Both men look like post-nuclear mutants and are shown playing guitar left handed.

[Teasing the Korean]

12 hours ago, JSngry said:

It (the cover) won a Grammy!

I did not know that!

15 hours ago, ListeningToPrestige said:

I wonder how often Monk's music got referred to as dreamy and sexy.

I would refer to it as mechanized, geometric, and futuristic.  It is like the musical equivalent of Richard Powers' paperback illustrations.  

[gmonahan]

On 6/10/2024 at 5:59 PM, John L said:

This Monk cover has always haunted me

 

 

🤣🤣

[JSngry]

Haunting?

I sure hope that that one was staged...