THELONIOUS MONK - Mulligan Meets Monk

Item Description

Vinyl,
LP Album Mono

Recorded at Reeves Sound Studios, NYC, on August 12 (A2, B2, B3) and 13 (A1, A3, B1) 1957 [dates of the respective tracks by jazzdisco.org; location and dates of the recording sessions on rear sleeve]

Please do not mix with [url=http://www.discogs.com/Thelonious-Monk-And-Gerry-Mulligan-Mulligan-Meets-Monk/release/2778242]this release[/url]. Both releases have different front sleeves. This one reads 'Contemporary Series' in upper right hand corner, the other release only has 'Riverside [+logo]' in lower right hand corner

Cat# on cover front: RLP 12-247

Has small 92mm blue/silver label, no 'inc' after' Bill Grauer Productions' (used in period 1958-60 from RLP 272 – 333). No deep groove. I suppose repressed together with the first stereo version of this album in 1959.

Back side of sleeve HAS NOT info about release after this release. It means that this release was issued in 1957 or 1958 year because releases from 1959 must have info about later Monk's release. In the same time, this release have second pressing matrix (but not second issue) that was pressed in 1959. So, from my point, this release is later issue (1959 or later) but the sleeve was changed on "second version" of sleeve - it just was mixed by owner, not originally released version.

Photography credits on release are wrong: Paul Weller