It's Monk's Time

Artist: Thelonious Monk
Label: Sbme Import
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 667340978828
EAN: 0667340978828
ASIN: B000025SDC

Release Date: 2001-04-17

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THAT MONK WORE FUNKY HATS, MAN

Tracks:

Lulu's Back in Town
Memories of You
Stuffy Turkey
Brake's Sake
Nice Work if You Can Get It
Shuffle Boil

Customer Reviews:

A beautifully balanced session.......2005-04-28

Musically and technically, this is a beautifully balanced session in every way.

On the initial listening, it can be a bit disconcerting to hear Monk soloing on the first track through the right channel only. When the other players come in on both channels, however, it becomes obvious that the instruments have been appropriately separated for a very "live" effect. The program material is also very balanced, providing three originals and three standards. The format ranges from Monk's solo interpretations of two ballads to the full quartet treatment on the medium up-tempo tunes, and the best-of-both-worlds long piano intro and finish on "Lulu's Back in Town." This is a truly outstanding interpretation of a tune Monk performed frequently. Everyone plays with focused, elegant confidence throughout.

This CD could serve as a starting point for exploring Monk's music. If you're already a fan, it might be a very worthwhile addition to your collection.

a Marsalis pick.......2003-05-07

This is the one Monk album Wynton Marsalis picked for his ten examples of "real jazz" in Sweet Swing Blues on the Road (p 140).

An Unsung Gem!.......2003-01-02

This is an excellent Monk album. And saying that means alot, since most Monk recordings are outstanding. But this is an unsung gem, which in their blindness (once again!) Columbia/Sony has not re-issued on disc.
So, leave it for another country to see the beauty here and re-issue it.
We are lucky they did! I've got it in the old LP format and had been looking for it for years on CD.
If you love Monk, don't miss this one. One of his best with some hard to find tunes. Five stars!!!!!

Everything Monk did is 5 stars.......2002-09-30

Monk was an amazing composer, but he did not write 150 compositions. I believe his book is 70 or tunes.

I love Lulu.......2002-07-27

It took more than twenty years for a wider public to discover Monk's music and gain any kind of general popularity, witnessed by his Time Magazine cover. Performed here with his 60's sidemen, they never sounded better. Although there were 150# Monk compositions, the great humor of "Lulu's Back in Town" remains my favorite from this period. It may be that I saw him perform at the Village Gate (with Charles Lloyd on the same bill) around the time of this release and this has smething to do with it. This is a wonderful place to start listening to Monk.

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