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Thelonious Monk / Sonny Rollins

Label: Prestige Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: The Way You Look Tonight; I Want To Be Happy; Work; Nutty; Friday the 13th.

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Thelonious Monk: Thelonious Monk / Sonny Rollins

Read "Thelonious Monk / Sonny Rollins" reviewed by Samuel Chell

by Samuel Chell
February 21, 2007

Since a 50th Anniversary edition of this recording was released only several years ago, it's possible that this recent RVG edition was seen by the parent company, Concord, as an opportunity to capitalize on the success--critical and popular--of the Monk/Coltrane Carnegie Hall concert (Blue Note, 2005). Regardless, this early meeting of masters, while yielding music of ...

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Thelonious Monk / Sonny Rollins: Thelonius Monk & Sonny Rollins

by Douglas Payne
November 1, 1999

Hard as it is to believe, states this disc's back-cover blurb, “Thelonious Monk was widely dismissed as an eccentric, while many found the young Sonny Rollins's tenor far too aggressive compared to the then-cool norm." As time passed, though, Monk became progressively more Monk-like (and less likely to explore anything outside of his own increasingly familiar ...