Album
Genius of Modern Music Vol. 1
Thelonious Monk
1951·labelBlue Note Records·13 tracks
Bebop
Why this record
“Monk's earliest Blue Note sessions capture the genesis of one of jazz's most singular and idiosyncratic compositional voices.”
About Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Sphere Monk was an American jazz pianist and composer. He had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "'Round Midnight", "Blue Monk", "Straight, No Chaser", "Ruby, My Dear", "In Walked Bud", and "Well, You Needn't". Monk is the second-most-recorded jazz composer after Duke Ellington.
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