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Miles & Monk at Newport is a split album featuring separate performances by the Miles Davis sextet and the Thelonious Monk quartet at the Newport Jazz Festival. It was released in June 1964 by Columbia records.[1][2] 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.
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| Released | June 1964[1][2] | |||
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| Venue | Newport Jazz Festival | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 51:00 (LP) 1:31:39 (CD) | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | Teo Macero | |||
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| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |  (CD reissue)[3] |
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.
In 1973, an expanded version of the Davis Newport performance was released as the LP Miles & Coltrane.
In 1994 the album was released with the Davis Newport performances expanded and the Monk portion released separately on the 2CD Monk compilation At Newport 1963 & 1965.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Ah-Leu-Cha" | Charlie Parker | 5:47 |
| 2. | "Straight, No Chaser" | Thelonious Monk | 8:46 |
| 3. | "Fran-Dance" | Miles Davis | 7:04 |
| 4. | "Two Bass Hit" | Dizzy Gillespie, John Lewis | 4:13 |
| Total length: | 25:50 | ||
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Nutty" | Thelonious Monk | 13:55 |
| 2. | "Blue Monk" | Thelonious Monk | 11:15 |
| Total length: | 25:10 | ||
SME Records – SRCS 9732-3[5]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Introduction" | 2:11 | |
| 2. | "Ah-Leu-Cha" | Charlie Parker | 5:56 |
| 3. | "Straight, No Chaser" | Thelonious Monk | 8:50 |
| 4. | "Fran-Dance" | Miles Davis | 7:08 |
| 5. | "Two Bass Hit" | Dizzy Gillespie, John Lewis | 4:14 |
| 6. | "Bye Bye Blackbird" | Mort Dixon, Ray Henderson | 9:11 |
| 7. | "The Theme" | Isham Jones, Marty Symes | 2:50 |
| Total length: | 40:20 | ||
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Introduction" | 1:25 | |
| 2. | "Criss-Cross" | Thelonious Monk | 8:12 |
| 3. | "Light Blue" | Thelonious Monk | 9:53 |
| 4. | "Nutty" | Thelonious Monk | 13:51 |
| 5. | "Blue Monk" | Thelonious Monk | 11:24 |
| 6. | "Epistrophy" | Thelonious Monk, Kenny Clarke | 6:34 |
| Total length: | 51:19 | ||
Side One personnel
Side Two personnel
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