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Misterioso
| Recorded | Aug 1958 |
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| Label | Riverside Records |
| Released | 1958 |
| Personnel | 4 credited players |
| Discogs | master 214903 |
The record
Live from the working quartet, the tenor pulls loose over spiky themes while Haynes keeps time slyly crooked. That heat against the leader's spare, clipped chords makes for one of the era's sharper conversations between horn and keys.
Session personnel
- Ahmed Abdul-Malik — bass
- Roy Haynes — drums
- Thelonious Monk — piano
- Johnny Griffin — tenor saxophone
Contemporary reception
No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.
Pressings
Showing the first pressing, audiophile reissues and copies carrying a collector marker, out of 72 pressings on file.
| 1958 | Riverside Records · RLP 12-279 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono earliest on file · deep groove |
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| 1985 | Original Jazz Classics · OJC-206 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo OJC |
| 2010 | Riverside Records · RLP 1133, 1133 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered, 180 Gram Analogue Productions |
| 2012 | Riverside Records · OJC-206 — Vinyl, LP, Reissue, Stereo OJC |
| 1958 | Riverside Records · RLP 12-279 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono · deep groove |
| 1959 | Riverside Records · RLP 1133 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress, Stereo · deep groove |
| 1960 | Riverside Records · RLP 12-279 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono · deep groove |
| 1961 | Riverside Records · RLP 12-279 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono · deep groove |
| 1963 | Riverside Records · RLP 12-279 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, DG side 2 · deep groove (one side) |
| 1975 | Riverside Records · SMJ-6119 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Test Pressing, White Label, Stereo · deep groove |
| 1961 | Riverside Records · RLP 279 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono |
| 1962 | Riverside Records · SR-7031 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo |
| 1963 | Riverside Records · R-5028 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono · laminated sleeve |
| 1963 | Riverside Records · RLP 12-279 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, No DG |
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