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Thelonious Monk: Monk's Mood (1957 recording) (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 23, 07

The final tune on Thelonious Himself is in fact not just Thelonious himself, and it’s akin to a fine dessert after a ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL THELONIOUS MONK PERFORMANCES

The pianist Thelonious Monk (1917-1982) was bebop’s mad genius. He and a handful of others created the jazz form, and...

Thelonious Monk: Blue Monk (live at Newport, 1958) (Rating: 80/100) posted in Music March 30, 08

The most frequently criticized sequence in Jazz on a Summer's Day, Bert Stern's documentary of the 1958 Newport Jazz ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JAZZ ON A SUMMER'S DAY

During the 1950s, the Newport Jazz Festival was an outdoor jamboree held in the exclusive environs of Rhod...

Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk: Rhythm-A-Ning (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music April 15, 08

One of the many strengths of Art Blakey's musical leadership was his ability to bring new musicians on board without ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL ART BLAKEY

By the age of 25 (1944), Pittsburgh-native Art Blakey had already completed stints with Mary Lou Williams and Fletche...

Thelonious Monk: Caravan (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 23, 07

     Charles Delaunay and Thelonious Monk, 1954             ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL THELONIOUS MONK PERFORMANCES

The pianist Thelonious Monk (1917-1982) was bebop’s mad genius. He and a handful of others created the jazz form, and...

Thelonious Monk: Thelonious (Rating: 80/100) posted in Music January 14, 09

Monk's tribute to himself is a linear swing that surprisingly does not deviate far from the chart. The tune is perfor...

Thelonious Monk: Ruby, My Dear (with John Coltrane) (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music October 23, 07

Choosing just one version of “Ruby, My Dear” as Monk’s finest is no easy task. This one stands out for Monk’s strong ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL THELONIOUS MONK PERFORMANCES

The pianist Thelonious Monk (1917-1982) was bebop’s mad genius. He and a handful of others created the jazz form, and...

Thelonious Monk: Crepuscule With Nellie (Carnegie Hall, 1957) (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music October 23, 07

The tapes from this 1957 Voice of America recording at Carnegie Hall were discovered only in 2005, and they contain t...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL THELONIOUS MONK PERFORMANCES

The pianist Thelonious Monk (1917-1982) was bebop’s mad genius. He and a handful of others created the jazz form, and...

Thelonious Monk: Blue Monk (1964 live version) (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 23, 07

Ask me, and I’ll tell you Live at the It Club is Monk’s best record. The latest two-disc version restores virtually e...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL THELONIOUS MONK PERFORMANCES

The pianist Thelonious Monk (1917-1982) was bebop’s mad genius. He and a handful of others created the jazz form, and...

Thelonious Monk: Evidence (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music March 01, 09

The topic of Thelonious Monk's drummers is intriguing. While many major players, from Kenny Clarke to Art Blakey to M...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ROY HAYNES

The century mark is a uniquely exciting time in the development of a major musical style. History is unearthed, co...

Thelonious Monk: 'Round Midnight (1957 solo version) (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music November 22, 07

        Thelonious Monk at Salle Pleyel (1954)            &...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL THELONIOUS MONK PERFORMANCES

The pianist Thelonious Monk (1917-1982) was bebop’s mad genius. He and a handful of others created the jazz form, and...

Thelonious Monk: Well, You Needn't (1957) (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music October 23, 07

Anytime you can get tenor sax giants Coleman Hawkins and John Coltrane in a room together, the result is bound to be ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL THELONIOUS MONK PERFORMANCES

The pianist Thelonious Monk (1917-1982) was bebop’s mad genius. He and a handful of others created the jazz form, and...

Thelonious Monk: Jackie-ing (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music August 14, 08

The 1950s and '60s were a time when many jazz giants walked the earth, but there was also an abundance of distinctive...

Thelonious Monk: Rhythm-a-Ning (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 01, 08

Monk had a huge influence on me as a composer and player. This album gives us some insight into what it might have be...

This track review is included in: DESERT ISLAND DOZENS: BEN ALLISON

Ben Allison, recently featured in an interview and concert review on jazz.com, now participates in our "Desert Islan...

Thelonious Monk & Gerry Mulligan: 'Round Midnight (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music December 08, 07

Producer Orrin Keepnews always did a brilliant job of putting his star musicians into interesting settings that tende...

Thelonious Monk: Dinah (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music January 12, 09

Monk was the consummate modernist of common-practice jazz. He was arguably the consummate historian, too. Consider:...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ETHAN IVERSON ON STRIDE PIANO

Editor's Note: Music fans, jazz-oriented or otherwise, may know Ethan Iverson solely as the pianist in The Bad Plus—t...

Thelonious Monk: Body and Soul (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music February 08, 08

With a kind of slow and heavy stride gait in the left hand and a right hand building arabesques around the melody bef...

Abbey Lincoln: Blue Monk (2006) (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music May 05, 08

Blue Monk" took on the self-righteous severity of a lecture by Emma Goldman. For her album Straight Ahead, Lincoln pa...

Archie Shepp & The New York Contemporary Five: Monk's Mood (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music April 22, 09

Many early free jazz musicians found inspiration in Thelonious Monk, who was avant-garde long before there was even s...

Jimmy Giuffre: Blue Monk (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music October 27, 07

Waiting in the wings of CBS-TV's special The Sound of Jazz (1957), Jimmy Giuffre watched his co-star Thelonious Monk ...

Brad Mehldau: Monk's Dream (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music January 14, 08

Brad Mehldau’s virtuosic version of Thelonious’s “Monk’s Dream” provides the listener with a prime example of a jazz ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: LIVE AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD

Whenever I step inside the Village Vanguard, I am always struck by a déjà vu sense of the awe-inspiring amounts of ...

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