Thelonious Monk – MONK

Label: Columbia – P757673 / CS 9091

Format: Vinyl  LP Album Reissue, 180g Gram

Country: US Release, 2010

Genre: Jazz, Bop,  Hard Bop

Vinyl VG+ with light and minimal surface wear under glare of light. Sleeve is VG+ with all edges intact, no splitting, no cut-outs, no ring wear, clean and unmarked, no writing, no stains, no price stickers, some very light surface wear from use, storage and handling.

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Thelonious Sphere Monk (October 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982) 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. Monk's compositions and improvisations feature  dissonances  and angular  melodic  twists, often using flat ninths, flat fifths, unexpected chromatic notes together, low bass notes and stride, and fast  whole tone  runs, combining a highly percussive attack with abrupt, dramatic use of switched key releases, silences, and hesitations. Monk's distinct look included suits, hats, and sunglasses. He also had an idiosyncratic habit during performances: while other musicians continued playing, Monk would stop, stand up, and dance for a few moments before returning to the piano. Monk is one of five jazz musicians to have been featured on the cover of  Time  (the others being  Louis Armstrong,  Dave Brubeck,  Duke Ellington, and  Wynton Marsalis). Monk’s composition ‘Round Midnight’ is widely recognized as the most recorded jazz standard composed by a single artist, with hundreds of versions by musicians across multiple generations.