Thelonious Monk & John Coltrane - Live at Carnegie Hall Jazz Album (Vinyl/CD/MP3) | Legendary Jazz Collaboration | Perfect for Music Lovers & Jazz Collectors

This CD features the Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane performing live at Carnegie Hall on November 29, 1957.

Monk and Coltrane had been working together for a solid four months by the time they set foot on stage at Carnegie Hall that night. By all accounts, Coltrane had been tentative early on in the Five Spot run, challenged at first by Monk’s quirky melodies and chord changes, but the 51 minutes of music captured in pristine sound quality on this album present the quartet—completed by bassist Ahmed Abdul-Malik and drummer Shadow Wilson—at the height of its powers.

The tapes from that evening at Carnegie Hall were inadequately labeled, filed away amongst the Voice of America’s vast collection of recordings, and apparently forgotten until January 2005 when Larry Applebaum, a supervisor and jazz specialist at the Library of Congress, came upon them by accident during the routine process of digitally transferring the Library’s collection for preservation purposes.