Genre: Jazz
Size: 12"
Format: 45RPM,

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Thelonious Monk Monk's Dream Numbered Limited Edition 180g 45rpm SuperVinyl 2LP Box Set

Thelonious Monk

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TAS Super LP List! Special Merit: Informal

Limited to Just 6000 Numbered Copies!
Limited To One Copy Per Customer Per Address!
MoFi SuperVinyl Pressed At RTI!

Mastered from the 1/4" / 15 IPS Analog Master to DSD 256 with Mobile Fidelity's One-Step Process: Monk's Dream UD1S 180g 45RPM 2LP Box Set the Definitive Version of Thelonious Monk's Best-Ever-Selling Album

Luxurious Packaging Includes Opulent Box, Foil-Stamped Jackets, MoFi SuperVinyl LPs Pressed at RTI: Keepsake Edition Strictly Limited to 6,000 Numbered Copies (Limit One Per Customer)

Monk's Columbia Records Debut Bursts with Blues, Stride, Gospel, and Swing: Music Conveys a Joyous, Boundless, Exhilarating Freedom That Encourages Repeat Listening

The historical import, musical genius, and timeless artistry of Monk's Dream can be best appreciated by first placing the record in the context of its era. In short, Thelonious Monk's joyful Columbia Records debut triggered a domino effect of mainstream attention, best-selling success, and unstinting respect that led him to become one of only six jazz musicians to ever grace the cover of Time - then America's most widely read weekly magazine. Couple the extraordinary feat with the fact the British Invasion and Beatlemania were already in full swing, and the cultural significance - not to mention its place in the jazz canon - of Monk's Dream skyrockets to near-unthinkable heights.

Strictly limited to 6,000 numbered copies, pressed on MoFi SuperVinyl at RTI, and mastered from the 1/4" / 15 IPS analog master to DSD 256, Mobile Fidelity's ultra-hi-fi UltraDisc One-Step 180g 45RPM 2LP collector's edition pays tribute to the 1963 album's merit and enhances the music for generations to come. Surpassing the sonics of every other prior version, this spectacular collector's edition strips away any remaining film and limiting ceilings to provide a clear, transparent, and up-close view of a set that inspired DownBeat to award the record a five-star review in which critic Pete Welding correctly proclaimed it "a stunning reaffirmation of [Monk's] powers as a performer and composer."

The lavish packaging and gorgeous presentation of the UD1S Monk's Dream pressing befit its extremely select status. Housed in a deluxe box, it features special foil-stamped jackets and faithful-to-the-original graphics that illuminate the splendor of the recording. No expense has been spared. Aurally and visually, this UD1S reissue exists as a curatorial artifact meant to be preserved, poured over, touched, and examined. It is made for discerning listeners that prize sound quality and production, and who desire to fully immerse themselves in the art - and everything involved with the album, from the images to the finishes.

Such potency reveals itself as all the more obvious on a vinyl set afforded full-range reproduction of the multi-layered complexities, challenging tonalities, and nontraditional rhythms that conspire to place Monk's finest outings in a league of their own. Accurately portraying the complete scale of a piano remains one of the most difficult tasks to accomplish on a recording. And yet the sound of Monk's instrument here captures its wide-bandwidth frequency response and inner cavity, allowing notes to individually register all the while pairing with succeeding and decaying chords in seamless fashion. The presence, tones, and contributions of the colleagues surrounding Monk - tenor saxophonist Charlie Rouse, bassist John Ore, and drummer Frankie Dunlop - register, too, with a lifelike realism rivaled only by sitting in an intimate club.

Bountifully benefitting from the newfound immediacy, clarity, and ink-black backgrounds on Mobile Fidelity's UD1S release are five originals and three covers that demonstrate the boundless vistas of Monk's vision, aptitude, and inventiveness. As acclaimed scribe Gary Giddins wrote while reminding us the North Carolina native's motto was "jazz is freedom," Monk's Dream exposes his "dauntless concentration, impressive faith, and an almost childlike glee." These traits spark works such as the spry interpretation of "Body and Soul," which Monk handles sans accompaniment, and guide the quirky angles that snake around and shape "Blue Bolivar Blues," the title of which refers to a Manhattan hotel.

Throughout, Monk's Dream conveys an exhilarating freedom that mirrors the improvisational twists, dissonant techniques, and melodic turns Monk embraced not only in the studio (and on the stage) but in everyday life. Considered by some to be too idiosyncratic for his own good, his flawless craftsmanship, underlying irreverence, and deep-seated knowledge of swing, stride, blues, and gospel raise this 1963 album to mythical levels - and let the inner contours, deliberate phrasings, and urgent solos on tracks like "Bye-Ya" and the title cut exhibit new details, themes, and directions with each listen.

Indeed, above everything, Monk's Dream encourages constant exploration and repeat plays. Always varying and forever bursting with fresh ideas, it refuses to stand still, instead buzzing with the energy of a city celebrating its internal commotion and dancing to the influences that made its current modernism possible. Monk was just decades ahead of everyone else in figuring out how this seemingly incongruent yet delightfully cool tango sounded. Fortunately for the rest of us, he documented it and called it Monk's Dream.

This double 45 'One-Step' pressing absolutely smokes every other version and provides all of the percussive excitement preserved on tape. A 'One-Step' absolutely worth the money.
-Michael Fremer, Analog Planet, Music 10/11, Sound 10/11

Features

  • Limited to One Copy Per Customer
  • Numbered, Limited Edition - Only 6000 Copies
  • MoFi SuperVinyl Pressing
  • UltraDisc One-Step
  • 45rpm Speed Edition
  • 2LP Box Set
  • Special foil-stamped jackets
  • Housed in an opulent box
  • Faithful to original graphics
  • Mastered from the 1/4" / 15 IPS Analog Master to DSD 256
  • Production and Mastering by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab

Musicians

Thelonious Monk piano
Charlie Rouse tenor saxophone
John Ore bass
Frankie Dunlop drums

Selections

  1. Monk's Dream
  2. Body And Soul
  3. Bright Mississippi
  4. Five Spot Blues
  5. Bolivar Blues
  6. Just A Gigolo
  7. Bye-Ya
  8. Sweet And Lovely

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