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Above all else, Monk's Dream is an exemplary collection of interpretations of the compositions and playing style of Thelonious Sphere Monk—perhaps the greatest iconoclast of twentieth-century jazz". [3] PopMatters correspondent Will Layman observed "You've never heard Monk played quite that way before.
A blues in B ♭ written in the studio and first recorded on September 22, 1954, for the album Thelonious Monk Trio, and is by far the tune Monk recorded the most. The melody is partly borrowed from Charlie Shavers' "Pastel Blue". [16] Versions of the tune appear on Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk, [17] and Monk's Blues.
Thelonious Sphere Monk was born on October 10, 1917, [7] in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, the son of Thelonious (or Thelious) and Barbara Monk. His sister, Marion, had been born two years earlier. His sister, Marion, had been born two years earlier.
A tier list is a concept originating in video game culture where playable characters or other in-game elements are subjectively ranked by their respective viability as part of a list. Characters listed high on a tier list of a specific game are considered to be powerful characters compared to lower-scoring characters, and are therefore more ...
Monk's Blues is an album by Thelonious Monk accompanied by a big band arranged and conducted by Oliver Nelson. Originally released by Columbia Records in 1968, it was re-released on CD in 1994. Produced by Teo Macero , the album was recorded in Los Angeles by Monk's working quartet augmented by a group of Hollywood studio musicians.
(One Piece: Mezase Kaizoku Ou!) for the Bandai WonderSwan Color handheld game console. [1] More than five years after the video game series debuted in Japan, One Piece: Grand Battle! Rush was the first One Piece video game to be localized and released in North America, on September 7, 2005, for Nintendo GameCube. [2]
This is the "80th Anniversary Birthday Tribute to Thelonious Sphere Monk" featuring 20 guest artists including Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Arturo Sandoval, Dianne Reeves, Nnenna Freelon, and Howard Johnson. By the 1990s, Monk was ready to begin his solo career, in which he has taken a decidedly more jazz-oriented direction.
The Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings is a 2006 release of Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane's work for the Riverside Records label in 1957, with two tracks previously unreleased. This collection is an almost complete anthology of the work of Monk and Coltrane, who only recorded together in the studio during 1957.