As a pianist I listen to that album and I think one could almost make a concordance of Monk pianoisms from it. And the Trio album is just the most Monkiest Monk piano record. The Blue Note stuff is really the stuff over the years that I find myself returning to more and more - there's always new stuff I hear in that - and especially since the Singles set has come out - which is a better set for listening than any of the earlier ways the material has been organized, and the best sound on the stuff to date. Though I wouldn't eschew the earlier stuff. I have it on an '80s OJC vinyl pressing of Brilliant Corners which is great and which I've never had any reason to replace. Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall - historic and influential if short-lived '57 quartet with Coltrane captured liveĬlick to expand.Others will have to answer that. Monk's Music may be Monk's best single album (although with a guy whose recording career began in 1948, albums aren't really the best measure of Monk's output) Thelonious Himself is Monk's first solo piano album and the version of "Round Midnight" is like a little Monk piano sonata Thelonious Monk Trio on Prestige pulls together his great early trio dates for the label is almost a primer in the Monk piano style and also features the introduction of more classicsīrilliant Corners is a great and great sounding album featuring Sonny Rollins and one of Monk's most brilliant original tunes
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Round Midnight: The Complete Blue Note Singles is I think the best way to hear his earliest recordings as a leader and some of his best plus the takes that introduce most of his most famous compositions I'd go chronologically, others might do it differently: The Soprano Onceover… on The Soprano Onceover: #79.You could begin with any one of these (or all of them). Kaysharpblog on Song of the Day // January 3:… Jani Ojalan Viimeise… on Jani Ojalan Viimeiset Sanat Co… The Soprano Onceover… on The Soprano Onceover: #79.… Thelonious Monk – Straight, No Chaser (1967) Vince Guaraldi & Bola Sete – Vince Guaraldi, Bola Sete and Friends (1963) Berliner Philharmoniker / Herbert von Karajan / Wiener Singverein / Wilma Lipp / Hilde Rössl-Majdan / Anton Dermota / Walter Berry – Requiem KV 626 (1962) It still warrants highlighting, but Monk here has a whole new vision straight, un-diluted with (at least as it comes off to me) a bigger personal melodic stamp atop it. Which is a little bit odd, since his name almost sounds like “rose”. In the previous two monk-writeups for this list, I’ve made sure I take time out to acknowledge Charlie Rouse‘s essential part in the melodic success of everything even though it’s apparent, the man doesn’t seem to get all his flowers, so to say, as often from Jazz-fans as he could for his involvement in such a plentitude of important material. It’s alright to be extra-confident if you can back it up. Eh, it’s not a bad attitude to have about performing, if it’s true. It’s a given that he’s in charge of these things, given that this is Monk we’re discussing here - a man whose melodic drive seems to be that he can out-do pretty much anything presented to him. Extended length, which provides coverage from just all areas, as to why Monk is the definitive force driving this album, its’ choices and overall momentum, its’ delicious melodic sensibility. The title-track is a Monk-centric number.
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