THELONIOUS MONK WORK SONNY ROLLINS Prestige RVG DG 1959 MISPRINT RARE JAZZ LP
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Description

FOR SALE IS A MEGA RARE AND HARD TO FIND 1ST EDITION 1959  RVG INITIALS (RUDY VAN GELDER) MONO PRESSING OF WORK BY JAZZ LEGENDS THELONIOUS MONK AND SONNY ROLLINS ON A YELLOW AND BLACK LABEL PRESTIGE RECORDS VINYL   THIS HAS THE MIS-SPELLNG OF THE NAME AND THE SCRATCHED OUT MATRIX.
THE RECORD IS A LOWER TIER VG- WITH NUMEROUS LIGHT PLAY MARKS BUT NO DEEP ONES THAT I CAN SEE OR FEEL.   THE COVER IS A  VG BUT HAS SOME AGE WEAR ON THE BACK.  THIS WAS KEPT IN A STORAGE LOCKER FOR OVER 45 YEARS SO THERE MAY BE A SLIGHT AGE SMELL.

Thelonious Monk / Sonny Rollins – Work!


Label: Prestige – 7169, Prestige – PRLP 7169 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Reissue, Mono, Misprint Country: US Released: 1959 Genre: Jazz Style: Bop

Tracklist

Hide Credits A1 Sonny Rollins Quartet Featuring Thelonious Monk– The Way You Look Tonight Bass – Tommy Potter Drums – Arthur Taylor* Written-By – Fields*, Kern* Bass – Tommy Potter Drums – Arthur Taylor* Written-By – Fields*, Kern* A2 Sonny Rollins Quartet Featuring Thelonious Monk– I Want To Be Happy Bass – Tommy Potter Drums – Arthur Taylor* Written-By – Caesar*, Youmans* Bass – Tommy Potter Drums – Arthur Taylor* Written-By – Caesar*, Youmans* A3 Thelonious Monk Trio– Work Bass – Percy Heath Drums – Art Blakey Bass – Percy Heath Drums – Art Blakey B1 Thelonious Monk Trio– Nutty Bass – Percy Heath Drums – Art Blakey Bass – Percy Heath Drums – Art Blakey B2 Thelonious Monk Quintet*– Friday The 13th Bass – Percy Heath Drums – Willie Jones French Horn – Julius Watkins Bass – Percy Heath Drums – Willie Jones French Horn – Julius Watkins

Companies, etc.

  • Record Company – Prestige Records Inc.
  • Pressed By – Abbey Record Manufacturing Co., Inc.
  • Published By – Prestige Music (3)

Credits

  • Lacquer Cut By – RVG*
  • Liner Notes – Ira Gitler
  • Photography By [Cover] – Esmond Edwards
  • Piano – Thelonious Monk
  • Recorded By – Van Gelder* (tracks: A1 to B1)
  • Remastered By – Rudy Van Gelder (tracks: B2)
  • Supervised By [Supervision] – Bob Weinstock (tracks: A1 to B1), Ira Gitler (tracks: B2)
  • Tenor Saxophone – Sonny Rollins (tracks: A1, A2, B2)
  • Written-By – Thelonious Monk (tracks: A3 to B2)

Notes

Reissue in new cover. Disk is repress of Thelonious Monk / Sonny Rollins - Thelonious Monk / Sonny Rollins with old catalog number scratched out.
Deep groove labels.

A1 & A2 recorded October 25, 1954
A3 & B1 recorded September 22, 1954
B2 recorded at WOR Studios (as mentioned in the liner notes), November 13, 1953

Misprint as "Theolonius Monk" instead of Thelonious Monk (mistakenly adds an "O" after the letter "E" on both sides on the label. 


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