Miles & Monk at Newport

Miles & Monk at Newport
Live album by Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk
Released	1964
Recorded	May & July 1958, April 1963
Genre	Jazz
Label	Columbia
Thelonious Monk chronology
Monk in Tokyo (1963) Miles & Monk at Newport (1964) Big Band and Quartet in Concert (1963)

Miles & Monk at Newport was a combined album of a Miles Davis appearance at Newport with an appearance of Thelonious Monk, from the LP era. Despite the title, the two artists do not perform together on the LP, and they are represented on each side by separate live appearances at the Newport Jazz Festival.

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.

In 1973, an expanded version of the Davis Newport performance was released as the LP Miles & Coltrane.

In the 1994 the album was released with the Davis Newport performances expanded and the Monk portion released separately on the 2CD Monk compilation Live at Newport 1963-65.

Track listing

Original LP

Side 1 - Davis in 1958

1. "Ah-Leu-Cha" (5:55, composed by Charlie Parker)
2. "Straight, No Chaser" (8:52, composed by Thelonious Monk)
3. "Fran-Dance" (7:08, composed by Miles Davis)
4. "Two Bass Hit" (4:19, composed by Dizzy Gillespie and John Lewis)

Side 2 - Monk in 1963

1. "Nutty" (13:57, composed by Thelonious Monk)
2. "Blue Monk" (11:18, composed by Thelonious Monk)

1994 Reissue

CD1 - Davis in 1958

1. "Introduction"
2. "Ah-Leu-Cha"
3. "Straight, No Chaser"
4. "Fran-Dance"
5. "Two Bass Hit"
6. "Bye Bye Blackbird"
7. "Theme"

CD2 - Monk in 1963

1. "Introduction"
2. "Criss-Cross"
3. "Light Blue"
4. "Nutty"
5. "Blue Monk"
6. "Epistrophy"

Personnel

Side One personnel:

• Miles Davis (trumpet)
• Cannonball Adderley (alto saxophone)
• John Coltrane (tenor saxophone)
• Bill Evans (piano)
• Paul Chambers (bass)
• Jimmy Cobb (drums)

Side Two personnel:

• Pee Wee Russell (clarinet)
• Charlie Rouse (tenor saxophone)
• Thelonious Monk (piano)
• Butch Warren (bass)
• Frankie Dunlop (drums)