― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Friday, 20 May 2005 02:28 (eighteen years ago) link
For solo stuff, lotta people swear by the 1954 Paris sessions, too.
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 20 May 2005 02:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― tremendoid (tremendoid), Friday, 20 May 2005 03:03 (eighteen years ago) link
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf200/f296/f29666zhy8t.jpg
(great cover too)
― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 20 May 2005 03:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Beta (abeta), Friday, 20 May 2005 04:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Josh (Josh), Friday, 20 May 2005 06:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 20 May 2005 08:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 20 May 2005 08:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 20 May 2005 08:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Friday, 20 May 2005 09:26 (eighteen years ago) link
I don't like Alone in S.F. much (compared to other Monk albums). I don't think the sound is good, and I just don't feel that he's really into it.
I'll add that I have the first volume of the Black Lion London Collection and I really, really enjoy that one. Great versions of "Meet Me in Dreamland" and "My Melancholy Baby".
― theophilus jones (theophilus), Friday, 20 May 2005 12:57 (eighteen years ago) link
To be honest, I have a bunch of Thelonious albums, but I, too, am actually still searching for a 'perfect' album. I like them all, but when I'm fiending for a Monk fix, to be totally honest, I usually just grab the Straight No Chaser DVD and my day immediately gets better. Maybe I oughta just buy the soundtrack...
― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Saturday, 21 May 2005 00:53 (eighteen years ago) link
I also really like Monk's Dream, which I think is the same group except with Frankie Dunlop on drums instead of Ben Riley.
― Hurting (Hurting), Saturday, 21 May 2005 00:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― mcd (mcd), Saturday, 21 May 2005 00:57 (eighteen years ago) link
Brilliant Corners is a very nice record - but unfortunately, it's still way too 'straight' to my ears - I got into jazz totally backwards - starting with ESP / BYG - it's so hard for me to get into anything (especially DRUMMING) that isn't INTENSE. In fact, Monk is pretty much one of only about ten exceptions (Miles, Charlie Parker, etc) to that admittedly dumb rule.
― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Saturday, 21 May 2005 01:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Beta (abeta), Saturday, 21 May 2005 01:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Burr (Burr), Saturday, 21 May 2005 02:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Saturday, 21 May 2005 11:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Saturday, 21 May 2005 12:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Josh (Josh), Saturday, 21 May 2005 20:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Saturday, 21 May 2005 20:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― poortheatre (poortheatre), Saturday, 21 May 2005 21:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 21 May 2005 22:06 (eighteen years ago) link
yeah that's absurd but check it out, you can barely HEAR the piano. It's a live date IIRC, so Tom Dowd's studio prowess still stands.
Solo Monk roolz IMO but many fans downplay the Columbia years.
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 22 May 2005 10:18 (eighteen years ago) link
i think its monks 90th anniversary? good story on monk/his hometown on all things considered this afternoon.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15130418
― artdamages, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 21:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Thanks for that. Does anyone have any idea whatever happened to the Monk biography Peter Keepnews was reportedly writing back in the late '90s?
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Thursday, 11 October 2007 08:40 (sixteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9p_XWyMBJkthis is just...
― calzino, Friday, 10 March 2017 00:12 (seven years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/P41IA7B.png
So lonious.
― mick signals, Monday, 18 September 2017 01:02 (six years ago) link
a reprise of a classic
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-spinoffs-mtvvjs25jul25-htmlstory.html
Tabitha SorenJoining the tireless Kurt Loder as the second face of MTV News, Soren performed her duties with a healthy sense of red-haired gravitas. However, she may be best known for her 1992 interview with Bill Clinton where she asked the candidate on a "Choose or Lose" special, "Who's your favorite musician?" When Clinton replied, "Thelonious Monk," Soren responded, "Who's the loneliest monk?"
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Monday, 18 September 2017 01:51 (six years ago) link