The Definitive Thelonious Monk On Prestige and Riverside compiles 21 Monk classics on two CDs. These previously released tracks were recorded between ...
David Bowling - 2010年 08月 24日
The Definitive Thelonious Monk is one of three releases by The Concord Music Group, which has assembled early essential recordings by some jazz greats...
Greg Barbrick - 2010年 04月 05日
The pairing of Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane was an inspired one. Both were to have a profound impact on jazz, yet when these recordings were mad...
John Fordham - 2010年 01月 29日
To older British jazz fans, pianist Howard Riley's identity probably belongs with the improv scene of the late 1960s that spawned Evan Parker, Derek B...
Chris Kompanek - 2009年 12月 10日
The remastered Monk is actually two mini-sets melded into one with the first quintet consisting of the underrated trumpeter Ray Copeland, tenor saxoph...
Greg Barbrick - 2009年 09月 26日
Thelonious Monk was already a legend in 1953, when the first of these recordings were made. He had only been on the scene for a few years, but his uni...