Label: EFORFILMS
Released: 2006
Track listing: Up With The Lark; I Loves You Porgy; Darn That Dream; Ahmad's Blues; My Old Flame; Blue Monk; Monk's Dream; Place St. Henri; Mood Indigo; Sophisticated Lady; Take the A Train; Tagore; Passin' Thru; Mack the Knife; Bonus Tracks; Yours Is My Heart Alone; Untitled Blues;

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Thelonious Monk & John Coltrane: The Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings

Read "The Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings" reviewed by Jim Santella

by Jim Santella
July 4, 2006

After last year's discovery and Blue Note release of a live recording featuring Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane, At Carnegie Hall, the Concord Music Group has released this two-CD set of Monk and Coltrane session recordings from earlier the same year. The collection includes false starts, alternate takes, previously unissued takes and final (reissued) copy. It's ...

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Thelonious Monk: Monk Meets the Beatles

Read "Monk Meets the Beatles" reviewed by Ken Dryden

by Ken Dryden
April 1, 2006

For years it was rumored that Thelonious Monk was asked to do an album of Beatles tunes, but now we finally have proof that it was actually made. In the summer of 1971, the pianist was approached by an English businessman to make a record of Beatles tunes as a surprise birthday gift for his wife. ...

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Steve Khan: The Green Field

Read "The Green Field" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
February 14, 2006

Nine years have passed since guitarist Steve Khan last released an album as a leader. But he hasn't been inactive, touring with artists like Terri Lyne Carrington and Greg Osby and co-leading the Caribbean Jazz Project. However, it's been far too long since he's released an album putting his immediately recognizable style front and centre.

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Thelonious Monk: The Classic Quartet

Read "The Classic Quartet" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
February 8, 2006

Intermittently available over the years on various labels and in various guises (most recently as Thelonious Monk Quartet in Japan and 1963: In Japan), this album catches Monk on the cusp between his unflaggingly inventive, mould-breaking Riverside years and his less consistently exploratory, later period with CBS. Clocking in at just over 38 minutes, The Classic ...