Thelonious Monk (Official Thread)

[briewer]

There's no thread for Thelonious Monk? You guys have GOT to be shitting me. Enjoy, you clowns.

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[xJesusFreakx]

The lack of love for my most recent thread (which wasn't even about a pop star, DARN it all) makes me want to neglect this thread, but I'm severely lacking in jazz and the like, so why not? Hi.

[cshadows2887]

I love when people whose computers let them embed start threads. Made my love of Mingus and Evans much easier to determine. Now to listen to Thelonius.

[acemvivere]

Monk, the man who lead to John Coltrane. Brilliant.

[drevans18]

thelonious monk and dave brubeck.

[kearn1tm]

Playing sideman under Davis, Rollins and especially Hawkins (Bean and the Boys is really, really under-appreciated), he finds a way to temper some of the more extreme tendencies of those brilliant musicians and accentuate their strengths. As a bandleader himself, he's very inconsistent. The early Blue Note bebop stuff was pretty good and some of that Hard-Pop sound that resonates on stuff like Monk's Music is damn good, and revisionist works like the reimagined string interpretations on 5 by Monk by 5 was awesome, but he has so much meandering work in-between all of that. They don't take away from his brilliant efforts, but there are some blights on the discog - namely, the two or three Prestige releases and some of the Columbia releases (I haven't heard them all, so I can't speak for his entire backlog).

[pleasedontpanic]

"Ruby, My Dear" and "Straight, No Chaser" are my tunes.

[smeguy]

Straight, No Chaser and Monk's Dream are amazing amazing amazing.

[Pat k]

That record he did with John Coltrane that a bunch of nerds found and remastered was really good. Obviously I like the Straight No Chaser record, and I like Brilliant Corners, duh. "I Didn't Know About You" rules.

[cshadows2887]

Listening to Monk's Dream for the first time and I'm very much into it.