Label: Legacy / Sony
Release Date: Sep 03, 2002
Recorded at Columbia Studios, New York, New York in 1963
Jazz
These 1962 recordings were Thelonious Monk's first for Columbia Records, with whom he spent the most commercially successful years of his career. Mixing his own highly personalized renditions of standards with originals, this was a pattern he ... Full Descriptionfollowed for all of his subsequent releases with the label. Of his originals, only "Bright Mississippi" had never been recorded before, but after decades of toiling in obscurity, the re-recording of tunes such as "Bolivar Blues" and "Bye-Ya" was most certainly warranted. This is in part because they'd not been heard before by most of his new and wide audience, and also because this quartet (with Charlie Rouse, John Ore and Frankie Dunlop) had been playing at this point for two years--longer than he'd ever been able to keep an ensemble together before and they'd settled into Monk's music like one charismatic and multi-limbed being.
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Thelonious Sphere Monk was 45 when he began work in 1962 on Monk's Dream, his first recording for a big mainstream label. Thus, the 8 tracks here, a mixture of Monk originals and standards, present the bop pianist at a career peak, documenting music that is both challenging and immediately accessible. Playing with his touring quartet, Monk makes each song his own, finding a typically quirky melody line within the romance of "Body and Soul" or the swing of "Bright Mississippi." Tenor saxman Charles Rouse adds some soothing horn soloing, but it's Monk's bright, intuitive playing that makes this a late bop milestone. Timeless.
By Steve Appleford.
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Frankie Dunlop- Drums
Thelonious Monk- Piano, Vocals
John Ore- Bass
Charlie Rouse- Tenor Sax
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01. Monk's Dream Thelonious Monk Quartet 6:26
02. Body And Soul (Take 3) Thelonious Monk 4:30
03. Bright Mississippi Thelonious Monk Quartet 8:38
04. Five Spot Blues Thelonious Monk Quartet 3:16
05. Bolivar Blues Thelonious Monk Quartet 7:32
06. Just A Gigolo Thelonious Monk Quartet 2:30
07. Bye-Ya Thelonious Monk Quartet 6:03
08. Sweet And Lovely Thelonious Monk Quartet 7:53
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