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 | Thelonious Monk: Monk's Moods (CD: Proper, 4 CDs)
An instantly identifiable sound is the trademark of all the great instrumentalists in jazz. Recognition of those rare, singular voices has always been rather immediate, but none more so than with Thelonious Sphere Monk, who was without a doubt, one of jazz’ great instrumental stylists as well as one of the music’s most gifted composers. A few bars of Monk’s superbly idiosyncratic piano and there is little doubt as to the identity of the player. The same applies to Monk’s compositions, even if performed by another instrumentalist or ensemble. Yet Monk’s work was long neglected and although a small coterie of musicians including Coleman Hawkins, Mary Lou Williams, Bud Powell, Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker recognised his talents from the beginning, Monk laboured in relative solitude during much of his most creative period.This box set spans Monk’s work and recorded output over three of the most noteworthy record labels he was involved with, consecutively: Blue Note - As far as his compositions are concerned, Monk recorded his most important body of work during his five-year association with the Blue Note label. Prestige - where he recorded some fine work with the likes of tenorist Sonny Rollins. Riverside - which resulted in the album "Monk Plays Duke Ellington", a trio date on which Monk presented an all-Ellington repertoire. Monk launched one of the great jazz labels in jazz history, while Riverside launched the crucial successful part of Thelonious Monk’s, until this point, seriously overlooked recording career. (Proper Records)
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Thelonious Monk: Genius of Modern Music, Vol.1 (CD: Blue Note RVG)
A BEBOP SHOP MILESTONE- An essential recording for your jazz CD shelf
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 | Thelonious Monk: Genius of Modern Music, Vol.1 (Vinyl LP: Blue Note)
Thelonious Monk was a little-known figure on the New York City bebop scene when Blue Note founder Alfred Lion discovered and fell in love with the pianist’s utterly unique music and offered Monk his first opportunity to record as a leader. Over four sessions recorded in 1947 and 1948, Blue Note documented Monk in trio, quartet, quintet, and sextet settings performing his singular compositions including “’Round Midnight,” “Ruby My Dear,” “Epistrophy,” “Well You Needn’t,” and “Thelonious,” and released the 10” LP Genius of Modern Music. In 1956, Blue Note transitioned to the 12” LP and began the fabled 1500 Series which included the expanded Genius of Modern Music, Volume One(BLP 1510) featuring one of Reid Miles’ earliest cover designs for the label.This Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition is mono, all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray, and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal. (Blue Note Records)
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Thelonious Monk: Genius of Modern Music, Vol.2 (CD: Blue Note RVG)
A BEBOP SHOP MILESTONE- An essential recording for your jazz CD shelf
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 | Thelonious Monk: Trinkle Trinkle (CD: Proper)
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Thelonious Monk: Criss Cross (CD: Proper, 2 CDs)
Thelonious Monk once told Frank London Brown 'Everything I play is different, different melody, different harmony, different structure. Each piece is different from the other one. I have a standard, and when the song tells a story, when it gets a certainsound then it's through, completed'.The most important jazz composer without doubt was Duke Ellington, but not far behind the Duke was Thelonious Monk. Monk, quite rightly so, has always been looked upon as a non-conformist yet the tunes he wrote since the 1940's were played by a wide range of musicians of the day, from Cootie Williams, via Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, and Dizzy Gillespie to Miles Davis. 31 tracks dating from 1941-51 are presented on this 2 CD set and Monk is supported by the likes of Coleman Hawkins, Art Blakey, Charlie Christian and Milt Jackson. (Proper Records)
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 | Thelonious Monk Trio: Thelonious Monk (Vinyl LP: Prestige/ Craft Recordings)
Thelonious Monk: the legendary jazz pianist and composer, considered one of the giants of American music. This is one of Monk's pivotal recordings and is an essential addition to all jazz collections. The album features his earliest recordings for the Prestige label performed with Gerry Mapp and Art Blakey or Max Roach. The album contains the earliest recorded version of the jazz standards "Blue Monk" and "Bemsha Swing". (Universal Music)
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Thelonioius Monk: Complete 1954-1962 Studio Solo Recordings (CD: Essential Jazz Classics, 2 CDs)
All existing solo piano studio master takes recorded by Thelonious Monk from his very first ones in 1954 up to his debut album for Colombia in 1962. While the majority of Monk’s recordings are in a quartet format, his unaccompanied tracks are full of magic. To complete the set, bonus tracks including 2 rare solo piano pieces recorded at the home of Baroness Pannonica. (Discovery Records)
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 | Thelonious Monk: Plays Duke Ellington (CD: Riverside Keepnews Collection)
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Thelonious Monk: Plays The Music Of Duke Ellington (Vinyl LP: Wax Time)
Recorded for Riverside in 1955, before the label was confident enough to issue recordings of Monk’s own compositions, so these reworkings of Ellington tunes remain an unusual aspect of the pianist’s recording career.Limited edition high-definition 180 g vinyl LP. Includes free MP3 download. (Discovery Records)
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 | Thelonious Monk Orchestra: At Town Hall (CD: Riverside Keepnews Collection)
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Thelonious Monk Orchestra: At Town Hall (Vinyl LP: Wax Time)
Limited edition, high definition 180g vinyl LP.
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 | Thelonious Monk: Brilliant Corners (CD: Riverside Keepnews Collection)
Monk's third Riverside album–the first to include horns and emphasize his original compositions–is recognized as the first major step in his rise from being considered a mere eccentric to rightful acceptance as a true jazz giant. Brilliant Corners has an all-star cast–featuring Sonny Rollins, Max Roach, and Clark Terry–and it took real stars to master some of Thelonious's most difficult and brilliant music. (Fantasy, Inc.)A BEBOP SHOP MILESTONE- An essential recording for your jazz CD shelf
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Thelonious Monk: Alone In San Francisco (CD: Riverside- US Import)
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 | Thelonious Monk: Alone in San Francisco (Vinyl LP: Wax Time)
Limited edition high definition 180 g vinyl LP.
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Thelonious Monk: Thelonious Himself (CD: Riverside Keepnews Collection)
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 | Thelonious Monk: 5 By Monk By 5 (CD: Riverside- US Import)
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Thelonious Monk: Monk's Music (CD: Riverside- US Import)
Monk's Music is among the most significant of Thelonious's classic Riverside albums. Here he was literally looking back and ahead at the same time, by bringing together Coleman Hawkins (the very first important voice on tenor saxophone) and John Coltrane (on the verge of becoming a major shaping force of the Sixties). Equally notable is the incredible rhythmic support provided by combining Art Blakey and Wilbur Ware; and, justifying the album title, a selection of vital Monk compositions, plus his choice of the 19th century hymn, "Abide with Me" (written by one William H. Monk). (Fantasy, Inc)
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 | Thelonious Monk: With John Coltrane (CD: Jazzland)
When Monk and Trane spent six months of 1957 working together at New York's Five Spot Cafe, it was an historic event which certainly should have been exhaustively recorded. But nonmusical conflicts made that impossible, leaving as the only permanent reminders of this momentous encounter the three remarkable quartet selections that highlight this album. (Fantasy, Inc.)
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Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane (Vinyl LP: Wax Time)
Limited edition high-definition 180g vinyl LP.
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 | Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane: At Carnegie Hall (CD: Blue Note)
This never-before heard jazz classic documents one of the most historically important working bands in all of Jazz history, a band that was both short-lived and, until now, thought to be frustratingly under-recorded. The concert, which took place at the famed New York hall on November 29, 1957, was preserved on newly-discovered tapes made by Voice of America for a later radio broadcast that were located at the Library of Congress in Washington DC earlier this year.Monk and Coltrane had been working together for a solid four months by the time they set foot on stage at Carnegie Hall that night. By all accounts, Coltrane had been tentative early on in the Five Spot run, challenged at first by Monk’s quirky melodies and chord changes, but the 51 minutes of music captured in pristine sound quality on At Carnegie Hall, present the quartet, which was completed by bassist Ahmed Abdul-Malik and drummer Shadow Wilson, at the height of their powers. The tapes from that evening at Carnegie Hall were inadequately labeled, filed away amongst the Voice of America’s vast collection of recordings, and apparently forgotten until January 2005 when Larry Applebaum, a supervisor and jazz specialist at the Library of Congress, came upon them by accident during the routine process of digitally transferring the Library’s collection for preservation purposes. Applebaum noticed a set of tapes simply labeled “sp. Event 11/29/57 carnegie jazz concert (#1),” with one of the tapes barring the sole marking “T. Monk.” Until now, remarkably little recorded documentation of Monk’s quartet with Coltrane has been known to exist, a fact that makes this finding all the more significant. (Blue Note Records)
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Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane: The Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings (CD: Universal, 2 CDs)
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 | Thelonious Monk Quartet featuring Johnny Griffin: Complete Live At The Five Spot 1958 (CD: Essential Jazz Classics, 2 CDs)
Just after John Coltrane left Thelonious Monk and before the arrival of Charlie Rouse, Thelonious Monk formed a quartet with tenor saxophonist Johnny Griffin, which played at the Five Spot in New York during 1958. Half of this music was issued on two albums: 'In Action' (Riverside RLP-1190) and 'Misterioso'(Riverside RLP-1133). This special 2CD edition contains all known music from that gig plus a rare bonus track, 'Coming On The Hudson', also featuring Johnny Griffin. (Proper Music)
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Thelonious Monk Quartet: Plus Two At The Blackhawk (CD: Riverside- US Import)
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 | Thelonious Monk with Johnny Griffin: Thelonious In Action (CD: Riverside- US Import)
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Thelonious Monk: Monk's Dream (CD: Columbia)
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 | Thelonious Monk: It's Monk's Time (CD: Columbia)
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Thelonious Monk: Solo Monk (CD: Columbia)
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 | Thelonious Monk: Criss-Cross (CD: Columbia)
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Thelonious Monk: Underground (CD: Columbia)
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 | Thelonious Monk: Palo Alto (CD: Impulse)
After the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968, racial tensions across the country rose. Palo Alto, a largely white college town in California, was not immune to the events of the day. Danny Scher, a rising junior at Palo Alto High School, had a dream to bring Thelonious Monk to Palo Alto to perform and help bring about racial unity in his community as well as raise funds for his school's International Committee. After somehow securing Monk's services to perform on Sunday, October 27, Scher initially had trouble selling tickets and convincing people that Monk was even going to show up. With many twists and turns along the way and several hundred people waiting in the school's parking lot to await Monk's arrival before purchasing tickets, the concert eventually happened and was a triumph in more ways than Monk or Scher could have imagined. This is a recording of that historic concert. The band is Thelonious Monk - piano / Charlie Rouse - tenor saxophone / Larry Gales - bass / Ben Riley - drums. (Universal Music)
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Thelonious Monk: Palo Alto (Vinyl LP: Impulse)
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