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On Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960, Monk is a heavyweight engaging with a middleweight, and middlebrow, in Vadim, whose career was more defined by his romantic conquests than his artistic content. But the soundtrack often intrudes and overwhelms some sections of the movie, whether during a party scene or at a ski resort or in a bedroom. РІР‚СљCrepuscule With NellieРІР‚Сњ plays over the opening credits, followed immediately by РІР‚СљWell, You NeednРІР‚в„ўt,РІР‚Сњ and soon after РІР‚СљBolivar Ba-Lues-Are.РІР‚Сњ ThereРІР‚в„ўs even a scene with jazz musicians Kenny Clarke, Kenny Dorham, Paul RovР“РЃre, Barney Wilen, and Duke Jordan, who also composed music for the film (though itРІР‚в„ўs not included in this set). Indeed, the music works better as an album than a soundtrack, though itРІР‚в„ўs clear Vadim had real affection for jazz.

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Monk did no less than four versions of РІР‚СљPannonica,РІР‚Сњ plus РІР‚СљBa-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues-Are,РІР‚Сњ РІР‚СљSix in One,РІР‚Сњ and the hymn РІР‚СљWeРІР‚в„ўll Understand It Better By and By.РІР‚Сњ What might have been monotonous in other hands provided ample opportunity for Monk, who wrote music with acres of room for his improvisational pivots. The producers found them while combing WilenРІР‚в„ўs archives in search of unreleased material the Frenchman might have left behind.Р”В«y the time Monk agreed to record, there was no time to write original music so he dipped into his own songbook: two versions each of РІР‚СљCrepuscule With Nellie,РІР‚Сњ РІР‚СљWell, You NeednРІР‚в„ўt,РІР‚Сњ РІР‚СљLight Blue,РІР‚Сњ and РІР‚СљRhythm-a-NingРІР‚Сњ (the first of which sounds as nimble and alive as any heРІР‚в„ўd done). His band was made up of Sam Jones on bass, Art Taylor on drums, tenor saxophonist Charlie Rouse, who would go on to be his loyal soldier for years to come, and another tenor, Barney Wilen, which is how these tapes were discovered. The photos show that his wife Nellie-his rock-was there as was his patron, the Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter.

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Even Vadim, whose personal life was more interesting than his lifeРІР‚в„ўs work-his two autobiographies were titled Memoirs of the Devil and Bardot, Deneuve, and Fonda: My Life With the Three Most Beautiful Women in the World-used the Modern Jazz Quartet to compose the music forР’В another of his erotic dramas, No Sun in Venice, two years earlier.Р”Вespite some personal and professional issues he was dealing with, Monk was in top form on this mid-summer day-spry, full of wit, his ideas delightfully unpredictable as ever. Jazz had such pan-cultural appeal in the late 1950s that Duke Ellington had a cameo in Otto PremingerРІР‚в„ўs Anatomy of a Murder, for which he also did the music Mingus scored John CassavetesРІР‚в„ў directorial debut, Shadows Р’В and Miles did the memorable soundtrack for Ascenseur Pour LРІР‚в„ўР“вЂ°chafaud. (Monk being Monk, he wore a conical hat during the date.) Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and TimesР’В of an American Original, as well as photographs from the session, which took place down the block from Carnegie Hall at Nola Penthouse Studio on 111 West 57thР’В Street.

ItРІР‚в„ўs bolstered by notes from scholars includingР’В Robin D.G. Thelonious Monk: Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960-a limited-edition double-LP and 2xCDР’В set-was produced by Zev Feldman, FranР“В§ois Le Xuan, and Frederic Thomas for the independent Sam Records and Saga labels with full permission from MonkРІР‚в„ўs estate. If 1959 was a summit in jazz, it may also have marked, on balance, MonkРІР‚в„ўs annus mirabilis. Improbably lost to the world, the recordings were never released on their own until now, on the centennial of MonkРІР‚в„ўs birth. His many virtues are underscored again with the unveiling of yet another recording he made that year: the soundtrack for Roger VadimРІР‚в„ўs film Les Liaisons Dangereuses, itself an adaptation of Pierre Choderlos de LaclosРІР‚в„ў 18thР’В century novel. If these were not as monumental as the aforementioned-or as brilliant as his own Brilliant Corners from 1957-then they showcased his vast breadth as a truly original pianist, bandleader, and above all, as a writer. Thelonious Monk, as Rushmore-worthy as those others, put out no less than three albums, all in a variety of settings: the large ensemble At Town Hall 5 by Monk by 5 with his quintet and the solo Thelonious Alone in San Francisco.