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Monk's Dream by Thelonious Monk

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Monk's Dream

Thelonious Monk

1963·labelColumbia Records·12 tracks

Jazz

Why this record

Monk's first Columbia LP captures his angular genius at its most fully realized, with a quartet locked into his idiosyncratic rhythmic universe with remarkable precision.

About Thelonious Monk

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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