Thelonious Monk - I Like Jazz: The Essence of Thelonious Monk '1963 - 1968

Artist	Thelonious Monk Related artists
Album name	I Like Jazz: The Essence of Thelonious Monk
Country
Date	1963 - 1968
Genre	Jazz
Play time	34:19
Format / Bitrate	Stereo 1420 Kbps / 44.1 kHz MP3 320 Kbps
Media	CD
Size	193 MB
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Tracks list

Tracks

01. 'Round Midnight 
02. Bemsha Swing 
03. Ruby, My Dear  
04. Criss Cross  
05. Well You Needn't  
06. Bye-Ya  
07. Thelonious

Personnel

Thelonious Monk - piano
Charles Rouse - tenor saxophone
John Ore - bass
Frankie Dunlop, Ben Riley - drums

Pianist/composer Thelonious Monk may have been jazz's first "minimalist"; not in
the sense of "repetition" as in the music of Terry Riley and Steve Reich, but in
the notion of the fewest notes played for maximum effect. Monk would never play
a flurry of notes when one note would do. He was also one of jazz's great
humorists, not as a joke-teller, but as a composer. Listen to the quirky,
slightly daffy melodies of "Criss Cross" and "Bye-Ya"--they're rich with the
humor and elegance of Pablo Picasso or Groucho Marx. Monk composed one of the
most popular and enduring of tunes in jazz history, the rhapsodic yet
blues-tinged "'Round Midnight." THE ESSENCE OF THELONIOUS MONK collects a dandy
sampling of the early-to-middle '60s recordings Monk made for Columbia. He's
presented solo, and in quartet format with his right-hand-man, the great tenor
saxophonist Charlie Rouse. This is a fine place to get a taste of this jazz
legend.