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Re: (TV) Jazz Monk



Per--

Not allowed to play jazz at home?  Man, that's tough.  Glad my wife's a fan...

My personal favorites:
_Brilliant Corners_: (the title tune is one of my all-time favorites--absolutely essential; everything else on the album is good, too. This was his return to recording originals after two standards albums he did when Riverside picked him up.)

_Thelonious Himself_ is astonishing. It's all great--don't overlook the 21 minutes of alternate takes of the solo version of "'Round Midnight." And there's a thrilling "Monk's Mood" with Coltrane. (breaking the "Monk alone at the piano" feel, it's like wandering out of a fascinating smoky bar into a summer evening.)

I'd next recommend the Town Hall concert, which was also released on Riverside, but they don't seem to have it on eMusic. Breathtaking arrangements for a large horn section. "Monk's Mood," "Crepuscule with Nellie," and the rousing "Thelonious" really shine.

Other stuff I see on eMusic:

_Misterioso_ has a lot of classic tunes on it: the title track, "Let's Cool One", "In Walked Bud," a full-band "'Round Midnight," and the deeply disturbing "Evidence."

_Monk's Music_ has the set-closer "Epistrophy," a gorgeous snippet of "Abide With Me" for horns (which sounds like what they play for you when you graduate from Thelonious Monk University), and the fantastic "Crepuscule with Nellie." (strangely, you have to download the whole album, for some reason)

Basically, anything on Riverside is well worth it. He wasn't terribly happy on the Prestige label, and it tends to show. Start in on the first two I've listed, though, and end up hooked.

Hope this helps,
Maurice

At 10:07 AM +0000 1/17/01, Per RosÈn wrote:
E-Music has a lot of Jazz (for example the Fantasy label). I have an "unlimited" subscription wich means that I can download as much as I want for 10bucks/month. (You get serious problems, because you never have time to listen to everything. Even worse, you're may not allowed to play jazz at home...)

http://www.emusic.com/artists/2075/Thelonious_Monk/

Can you, Maurice, or anyone else recommend some of the 18 Monk-titles, or do you think that everything is worth downloading?


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Maurice Rickard
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