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Thelonious Monk - The Classic Quartet (Remastered) '2005

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The Classic Quartet (Remastered)

Artist	Thelonious Monk Related artists
Album name	The Classic Quartet (Remastered)
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Date	2005
Genre	Jazz
Play time	38 min
Format / Bitrate	24 BIT FLAC Stereo 2856 Kbps / 96 kHz
Media	CD
Size	210.43 Mb
Price	$5.95

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	1. Intermittently available over the years on various labels and in various guises , this album catches Monk on the cusp between his unflaggingly inventive, mould-breaking Riverside years and his less consistently exploratory, later period with CBS
	2. Clocking in at just over 38 minutes, The Classic Quartet is a set the group recorded for Japanese TV during a short tour of the country in May, 1963. The sound, enhanced from videotape, is surprisingly good: solid and generally well-balanced throughout
	3. The band likewise. They turn in solid performances of familiar material, and each of the five tracks at some point hits the high ground—Monk's solos on "Epistrophy," "Just A Gigolo" and "Blue Monk"; Rouse's solos on "Evidence" and "Blue Monk"; and Frank Dunlop's solos on "Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues-Are" and "Evidence."
	4. While it's always a pleasure to hear a stretched out "Epistrophy" rather than the usual brief set-opening theme statement, the best tracks are probably "Just A Gigolo" and "Blue Monk." Monk was able to get so deep inside his favourite standards, and turn them so thoroughly inside out, that at its best the effect is one of the tune having been written specially for him. The piano-only treatment of "Just A Gigolo" is one of those little treasures. At just over three minutes, "Gigolo" is the shortest track on the album. "Blue Monk," at over eleven minutes, is the longest, taken at an easy, swinging, measured pace. Rouse turns in a muscular solo, but it's Monk himself who shines brightest, investing his ten-year-old warhorse with spontaneity and wit, funk and dissonance
	5. Probably appealing most to the Monkian hardcore, it's good to have The Classic Quartet back on the menu
	6. Personnel
	7. : piano; Charlie Rouse: saxophone, tenor; Butch Warren: bass; Frankie Dunlop: drums
	8. Tracklist:
	9. 1.01 - - Epistrophy
	10. 1.02 - - Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues-Are
	11. 1.03 - - Evidence
	12. 1.04 - - Just A Gigolo
	13. 1.05 - - Blue Monk

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