Artist: Thelonious Monk Genre(s):
Jazz
Discography:
Suddenly Year: 2002
Tracks: 9
Underground Year: 1998
Tracks: 7
Striaght, No Charser Year: 1998
Tracks: 9
Monk Alone (Cd 2) Year: 1998
Tracks: 19
Monk Alone (Cd 1) Year: 1998
Tracks: 18
Piano Solo Year: 1996
Tracks: 9
Ronnie Mathews - Shades Of Monk Year: 1994
Tracks: 4
Bebop and Beyond plays Thelonious Monk Year: 1990
Tracks: 9
Monk's Music Year: 1986
Tracks: 8
Kronos Quartet - Monk Suite Year: 1985
Tracks: 9
Monk's Classic Recordings Year: 1983
Tracks: 12
Monk's Blues Year: 1968
Tracks: 5
Monk Year: 1965
Tracks: 7
Monk In Tokyo Year: 1963
Tracks: 10
Criss-Cross Year: 1963
Tracks: 12
April In Paris Year: 1963
Tracks: 6
Pianology (with Bud Powell) Year: 1961
Tracks: 11
Thelonious Monk and The Jazz Giants Year: 1959
Tracks: 9
Thelonious In Action Year: 1958
Tracks: 10
Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers W Year: 1958
Tracks: 9
Mulligan Meets Monk Year: 1957
Tracks: 9
Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers With Thelonious Monk Year: 1957
Tracks: 6
The Unique Year: 1956
Tracks: 7
Plays Duke Ellington Year: 1955
Tracks: 8
Genius of Modern Music, Vol. 2 Year: 1952
Tracks: 18
Genius of Modern Music, Vol. 1 Year: 1947
Tracks: 21
Ken Burns Jazz Series: Thelonious Monk Year:
Tracks: 14
The most significant jazz musicians are the ones world Health Organization are successful in creating their possess original populace of music with its have rules, logic, and surprises. Thelonious Monk, wHO was criticized by observers world Health Organization failed to listen to his music on its have footing, suffered through a decade of negligence earlier he was suddenly acclaimed as a genius; his medicine had not changed unmatched bit in the interim. In fact, one of the more remarkable aspects of Monk's music was that it was amply formed by 1947 and he saw no motive to change his playing or compositional style in the slightest during the future 25 eld.
Thelonious Monk grew up in New York, started playing piano when he was around basketball team, and had his first job touring as an accompanist to an evangelist. He was elysian by the Harlem pace pianists (James P. Johnson was a neighbour) and vestiges of that idiomatic expression can be heard in his by and by unaccompanied solos. However, when he was playing in the sign stripe of Minton's Playhouse during 1940-1943, Monk was trenchant for his possess individual stylus. Private recordings from the period find oneself him sometimes resembling Teddy Wilson only starting to use more advanced rhythms and harmonies. He worked with Lucky Millinder a bit in 1942 and was with the Cootie Williams Orchestra briefly in 1944 (Bernard Arthur Owen Williams recorded Monk's "Epistrophy" in 1942 and in 1944 was the first-class honours degree to criminal record "'Round Midnight"), only it was when he became Coleman Hawkins' veritable pianist that Monk was ab initio noticed. He cut a few titles with Hawkins (his transcription debut) and, although some of Hawkins' fans complained around the type pianist, the vet tenor could sense the pianist's greatness.
The 1945-1954 period was very difficult for Thelonious Monk. Because he left a fortune of space in his rhythmical solos and had an strange technique, many people idea that he was an subscript pianist. His compositions were so advanced that the lazier bebop players (although not Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker) false that he was crazy. And Thelonious Monk's diagnose, show (he liked fishy hats), and personality (an once in a while uncommunicative invaginate) helped to brand him as some kind of testis. Fortunately, Alfred Lion of Blue Note believed in him and recorded Monk extensively during 1947-1948 and 1951-1952. He also recorded for Prestige during 1952-1954, had a solo set for Vogue in 1954 during a visit to Paris, and appeared on a Verve date with Bird and Diz. But work was identical sporadic during this geological era and Monk had to struggle to have ends gather.
His fortunes slow began to improve. In 1955, he signed with Riverside and producer Orrin Keepnews persuaded him to record an album of Duke Ellington tunes and one of standards so his music would appear to be more than accessible to the medium malarky fan. In 1956 came the greco-Roman
Brilliant Corners album, just it was the following year when the site for good changed. Monk was set-aside into the Five Spot for a long booking and he used a quartette that featured strain saxophonist John Coltrane. Finally, the critics and then the jazz public recognised Thelonious Monk's greatness during this important gig. The fact that he was unique was a disadvantage a few days before when all modern jazz pianists were expected to good like Bud Powell (world Health Organization was ironically a close friend), simply by 1957 the nothingness public was looking for a new access. Suddenly, Monk was a renown and his status would not change for the remainder of his life history. In 1958, his quadruplet featured the tenor of Johnny Griffin (world Health Organization was tied more compatible than Coltrane), in 1959 he appeared with an orchestra at Town Hall (with arrangements by Hall Overton), in 1962 he signed with Columbia and deuce years after was on the extend of Time. A endorsement orchestra concert in 1963 was regular better than the first and Monk toured forever throughout the sixties with his quartette which featured the dependable tenor of Charlie Rouse. He played with the Giants of Jazz during 1971-1972, just then in 1973 all of a sudden retired. Monk was suffering from mental malady and, other than a few special appearances during the mid-'70s, he lived the rest of his life-time in privacy. After his demise it seemed as if everyone was doing Thelonious Monk tributes. There were so many versions of "'Round Midnight" that it was much a pop arrive at! But despite the posthumous hail and attempts by pianists ranging from Marcus Roberts to Tommy Flanagan to recreate his style, at that place was no replenishment for the original.
Some of Thelonious Monk's songs became standards early on, almost notably "'Round Midnight," "Straight No Chaser," "52nd Street Theme," and "Profane Monk." Many of his other compositions have by now been figured out by other malarky musicians and are once in a while performed including "Ruby My Dear," "Well You Needn't," "Off Minor," "In Walked Bud," "Misterioso," "Epistrophy," "I Mean You," "Four-spot in One," "Criss Cross," "Ask Me Now," "Lilliputian Rootie Tootie," "Monk's Dream," "Bemsha Swing," "Think of One," "Friday the 13th," "Hackensack," "Nutty," "Brilliant Corners," "Evenfall With Nellie" (scripted for his strong and supportive married woman), "Evidence," and "Rhythm-a-Ning," Virtually all of Monk's recordings (for Blue Note, Prestige, Vogue, Riverside, Columbia, and Black Lion) have been reissued and among his sidemen through the years were Idrees Sulieman, Art Blakey, Milt Jackson, Lou Donaldson, Lucky Thompson, Max Roach, Julius Watkins, Sonny Rollins, Clark Terry, Gerry Mulligan, John Coltrane, Wilbur Ware, Shadow Wilson, Johnny Griffin, Donald Byrd, Phil Woods, Thad Jones, and Charlie Rouse. His logos Thelonious Monk, Jr. (T.S. Monk) has helped keep the voiceless federal Bureau of Prisons tradition animated with his fivesome and has headed the Thelonious Monk Institute, whose annual competitions succeed in advertising talented young players.