Thelonious Monk THE UNIQUE 1999 Japanese Riverside Mini-LP OOP

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Thelonious Monk. THE UNIQUE THELONIOUS MONK. 1999 Japanese Riverside (Victor) CD reissue. VICJ-60351. Out of print. Recorded 1956. Track Listing 1. Liza 2. Memories of You 3. Honeysuckle Rose 4. Darn That Dream 5. Tea For Two 6. You Are Too Beautiful 7. Just You, Just Me Album Notes Personnel: Thelonious Monk (piano); Oscar Pettiford (bass); Art Blakey (drums).Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey on March 17 & April 3, 1956. Originally released on Riverside (209). Includes original liner notes by Orrin Keepnews.In an effort to force the musical mainstream to reasses Thelonious Monk, Riverside producer Orrin Keepnews asked the pianist to record an album of familiar American standards. Much to Riverside's surprise, many of the same critics who'd previously dismissed Monk's music for being too abstract now criticized his new label for putting him in a creative straitjacket. However, with the benefit of hindsight, we can hear clearly the pianist's roots in the Tin Pan Alley tradition throughout THE UNIQUE THELONIOUS MONK.Monk begins with a hard-swinging rendition of Gershwin's "Liza," introducing some subtle rhythmic variations on the theme and a touch of boogie woogie in the bridge. The pianist's rolling lines and jagged punctuations culminate in a rollicking two-handed assault; although he pulls back in the read more

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