A brilliant title for this brilliant album from Thelonious Monk – a set that really has him coming back strongly in the second half of the 50s – with a new talent for arrangements that really goes past his previous work! Monk's piano and compositions are every bit as great as before – but what really makes the album amazing is his ear for horn lines – .

Jun 28,  · Monk's Dream - the 4th CD has always been one of my favorite Monk recordings and his first recording in many years (for Columbia)- this is Jazz at the utmosts and includes like most of the CD's several "takes" on the recorded tunes as a bonus. The last CD "SOLO" as it indicates is Monk totally on his own/5(84).

Thelonious Monk. Thelonious Sphere Monk (October 10, – February 17, ) was an American jazz pianist and composer considered one of the giants of American music.

Biography – Early life. Thelonious Sphere Monk was born two years after his sister Marion on October 10, , in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, and was the son of Thelonious and Barbara phapuntinittestsincpeachoverkderswamwee.coinfo poorly written birth certificate misspelled his first name as "Thelious" or "Thelius". It also did not list his middle name, taken from his maternal grandfather, Sphere Batts.

Thelonious Sphere Monk (Rocky Mount, North Carolina 10th October - Hartsdale, New York 17th February ) was a jazz pianist and composer. Widely considered as one of the most important musicians in jazz – he is one of only five jazz musicians to be featured on the cover of Time – Monk had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the .

Monk's Dream is an album by jazz pianist Thelonious Monk that was released by Columbia Records in March "Sweet and Lovely", "Just a Gigolo" and "Monk's Dream" on November 2; and "Five Spot Blues" on November 6. "Bright Mississippi" is the only composition on the album that Monk had not previously recorded.

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View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the Vinyl release of Thelonious Monk Trio on Discogs. Label: Original Jazz Classics - OJC,Prestige - P • Format: Vinyl LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered • Country: US • Genre: Jazz • Style: Hard Bop/5(23).