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Thelonious Monk

Blue Monk

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Unique, alone and solitary, Thelonious Sphere Monk, extreme pianist, conducted his career with patience and tenacity. His work is, just like him, colossal, bewildering, singular, and of an unusual modernity to the point of unease. His compositions testify to both a nearly scientific rigor and a chaotic urgency, unfolding like a constant back-and-forth between complexity and simplicity. His work possesses all the characteristics of art: mystery, arbitrariness, and obviousness. Quietly convulsive, Monk played, wrote, and composed to escape from hell. To do this, he used nothing other than the sole means of the piano: the force of the attack of the keys, or, on the contrary, the slight caress of the fingers, the fury of a note or silence. An explorer of the strange, the bizarre, the second degree, the "High Priest of Bebop" symbolizes the irruption of thought into music, irony, dissent, and the science of the unpredictable, with this unique ability to make speak what lies behind the notes and that only he hears.

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Disc 1

  1. Misterioso
  2. Evidence
  3. Mohawk
  4. Four in one
  5. Eronel
  6. I'll follow you
  7. Sweet and lovely
  8. Let's call this
  9. Smoke gets in your eyes
  10. We see (manganese)
  11. Hackensack
  12. Work
  13. The way you look tonight
  14. It don't mean a thing (if I ain't got that swing)
  15. Sophisticated lady
  16. I got it bad and that ain 't good
  17. Mood indigo
  18. Caravan
  19. Solitude

Disc 2

  1. Memories of you
  2. You are too beautiful
  3. Honeysuckle rose
  4. Bemsha swing
  5. Round about midnight
  6. All alone
  7. Monk's mood
  8. In walked bud
  9. Off minor
  10. Epistrophy
  11. Ruby my dear
  12. Trinkle tinkle
  13. Nutty

Disc 3

  1. Straight no chaser
  2. I mean you
  3. Blue Monk
  4. Round lights
  5. Pannonica
  6. Bluehawk
  7. Remember
  8. Reflections
  9. Bye-ya
  10. Bolivar blues
  11. Just a gigolo
  12. Monk's dream
  13. Rhytm-a-ning
  14. Criss-cross
  15. Think of one
  16. Crepuscule with Nellie

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