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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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In Philadelphia 1960 with Steve Lacy

Label: Rare Live Recordings
Released: 2007
Track listing: Announcement; Evidence; Announcement; Straight No Chaser; Rhythm A Ning Into Closing; Announcement; Blue Monk; Light Blue; Evidence; Just You Just Me; All The Things You Are; Suburban Eyes; Steve Allen Interviews Monk; Well You Needn't; Especially For You; Nobody Knows.

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Live at the 1964 Monterey Jazz Festival

Label: Monterey Jazz Festival Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Blue Monk; Evidence; Bright Mississippi; Rhythm-a-ning; Think of One; Straight, No Chaser.

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Thelonious Monk Trio

Label: Prestige Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Blue Monk; Just A Gigolo; Bemsha Swing; Reflections; Little Rootie Tootie; Sweet And Lovely; Bye-Ya; Monk's Dream; Trinkle, Tinkle; These Foolish Things.

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Thelonious Monk: Live at the 1964 Monterey Jazz Festival

Read "Live at the 1964 Monterey Jazz Festival" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Il 1964 fu un anno fortunato per la carriera e la visibilità internazionale di Thelonious Monk. Lo testimoniano un tour mondiale, alcuni ragguardevoli album incisi per la Columbia e la sua foto sulla copertina di Time Magazine. Ultima ma non meno importante, la partecipazione al prestigioso Monterey Jazz Festival, dopo quella dell’anno precedente. Rimasta fino ad ...

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Thelonious Monk: Live at the 1964 Monterey Jazz Festival

Read "Live at the 1964 Monterey Jazz Festival" reviewed by Greg Camphire


As part of the series of recordings launching the Monterey Jazz Festival's new record label, this previously unreleased 1964 set by Thelonious Monk offers a glimpse of the maestro with an augmented version of his working quartet of the time, during which the pianist was finally receiving much-deserved mainstream attention from the public. Monk can be ...

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Sam Newsome & Plays Monk: Defenders Of The Thelonious Flame

Read "Sam Newsome & Plays Monk: Defenders Of The Thelonious Flame" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Forget the comic book heroes Batman, Spiderman and the Fantastic Four. I've been a member of an international force for good called “the guardians of the Thelonious Monk legacy. Our mission is to protect the music Monk wrote nearly fifty years ago from those up to hijinks. I've terminated would-be hackers from botching the sacred “Round ...

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Thelonious Monk: Thelonious Monk Trio

Read "Thelonious Monk Trio" reviewed by Chris May


Pianist, composer and ranking bop pioneer Thelonious Monk made a heap of recordings during his lifetime (1917-82) and, generally speaking, the further back in time you go the more magical they are. Thelonious Monk Trio (Prestige, 1954), here in a Rudy Van Gelder remaster edition, is early Monk and amongst the most eternal of his albums. ...

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Thelonious Monk: In Philadelphia 1960 with Steve Lacy

Read "In Philadelphia 1960 with Steve Lacy" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian


The discovery of an obscure, previously unknown, recording from a master musician is often but not always a source of celebration. Unfortunately the new release by Rare Live Recordings of pianist Thelonious Monk's In Philadelphia 1960 with Steve Lacy is one of those occasions when it is not. The disappointment starts even before you start listening ...

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Thelonious Monk: Thelonious Monk / Sonny Rollins

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


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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