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Miles & Monk at Newport LP CBS mono reissue EX/NM

Miles & Monk at Newport LP CBS mono reissue EX/NM

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The sleeve shows just a touch of wear EXCELLENT

the vinyl is pristine NEAR MINT

Miles & Monk at Newport is a  split album featuring separate performances by the Miles sextet and the Monk quartet at the  Newport Jazz festival. It was released in June 1964 by Columbia records.]Davis's set was recorded in 1958, and Monk's in 1963. Despite the album's title, the two artists do not perform together at either date.

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. On the second side were a few numbers by Thelonious Monk's combo, from a 1963 Newport appearance. It featured an idiosyncratic appearance by clarinetist Pee Wee Russell. The Miles set was recorded in mono and the Monk set was recorded in stereo, so the mono LP featured a fold-down of the Monk set and the stereo LP featured an electronically re-channeled for stereo remix of the Miles set.

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