Midnight at Minton's

Midnight at Minton's
Midnight at Minton's
Live album by Don Byas
Released	1973
Recorded	1941
Genre	Jazz
Length	38:51
Label	High Note Records
Producer	Don Schlitten
Don Byas chronology

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[2]

Midnight at Minton's is an album by jazz musician Don Byas, first released in 1973. It is a live recording of a 1941 jam session at Minton's Playhouse, the New York City nightclub at which the emerging style of bebop was being pioneered.

It features one of the earliest known recordings of Thelonious Monk, who was then playing piano in Minton's house band.^[3]^[4]

The album is taken from private recordings made by Columbia University student Jerry Newman on a portable acetate disc recorder. Newman made the recordings for "Delayed on Disc" broadcasts on college radio station WKCR — the discs were rushed back to the radio studio shortly after being cut and presented in the style of a live broadcast from the venue.^[5]

In a review for AllMusic, Michael G. Nastos concludes that, "the music itself is priceless, the document of a transitional period from swing to bop, and some of the people that made it happen, especially the underappreciated genius Byas."^[6]

Track listing

"Stardust" (Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parish) – 9:04
"Exactly Like You" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) – 9:03
"Uptown" (Don Byas) – 2:45
"Body and Soul" (Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton, Johnny Green) – 7:29
"I Can't Give You Anything But Love" (Fields, McHugh) – 4:07
"(Back Home Again in) Indiana" (James F. Hanley, Ballard MacDonald) – 6:23

Personnel

Don Byas – tenor saxophone
Joe Guy – trumpet
Thelonious Monk – piano
Milt Hinton – bass (uncredited in liner notes)
Kenny Clarke – drums
Helen Humes – vocals (1,2)

Similar albums

Live at Minton's – Musidisc 30 JA 5121 (France, LP)
Midnight at Minton's – Onyx ORI 208 (LP)
Midnight at Minton's – Polydor 2310341 (LP)

References

^ Allmusic review
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 209. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
^ "Bebop", Scott Yanow
^ "Jazz: The First 100 Years", Henry Martin and Keith Waters
^ A History of WKCR's Jazz Programming Archived 2006-02-22 at the Wayback Machine
^ AllMusic review

[1] Allmusic review

[Penguin-2] Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 209. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

[3] "Bebop", Scott Yanow

[4] "Jazz: The First 100 Years", Henry Martin and Keith Waters

[5] A History of WKCR's Jazz Programming Archived 2006-02-22 at the Wayback Machine

[6] AllMusic review

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