TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.5688
Thelonious Monk Album Rankings
1
AlthoughBrilliant Cornersis Thelonious Monk's third disc for Riverside, it's the first on the label to weigh in with such heavy original material.
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Monk's Musicis often cited as one of the focal points of Thelonious Monk's six-year affiliation (1955-1961) with the Riverside label.
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Volume 1of the two-volumeGenius of Modern Musicset comprises the first sessions Thelonious Monk recorded as a leader, on October 15 and 24 and November 21 of 1947.
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On the second volume in this two-disc series Thelonious Monk has come fully into his own as a leader.
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5
This magnificent limited-edition set launched the Mosaic label in real style.
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This release has long been considered Thelonious Monk's acknowledgement to the flourishing youth-oriented subculture from whence the collection takes its name.
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The mystery and haunting angular beauty of Thelonious Monk's unadorned keyboard sides are the focus ofSolo Monk.
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This is the second long-player to be taken from the same August 1958 Five Spot recordings that had yielded the similarly brilliantThelonious in Action!The quartet heard on these sets includes Monk (pi
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Thelonious Monk was frequently recorded in live settings during his tenure with Columbia, though the original two-LP set wasn't released until 1982, and then only in edited form.
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10
This aptly titled triple-disc compilation examines Thelonious Monk's final years as an active recording artist.
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11
Today's avant-garde is tomorrow's mainstream—as was the case with Monk. When widespread success finally arrived, there was this nagging suspicion he didn't quite know how to deal with it.
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12
What this disc lacks in program time is more than compensated for in content.
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13
Monk in Splendor? Or Just a Gigolo? By the time Thelonious Monk appeared on the cover of Time Magazine in 1964, anointed as the cool weird slightly scary jazzbo that it was okay for middle America to
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The Joy of Monk For beginners, this is as good as any introduction to Monk's music, with every quartet member at his best and playing with an assurance founded on having a contract with a major label
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17
This is a remarkable film. In 1968, Michael and Christian Blackwood shot extensive footage of Thelonious Monk not only onstage, but off.
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Solo Monk is best taken in small doses--the ringing silences alone can be maddening--but this is one of the better ones with a bonus cut featuring Coltrane and bassist Wilbur Ware .
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Like Unique this highlights Monk's interpretive side (both dates were calculated to bring him to a wider jazz audience) in a trio context.
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Monk Eternal Charlie Rouse was forever underrated, more than anyone else the victim of the succession of recordings he and Thelonious Monk made with invariably first-rate bassists and drummers.
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Interesting dialogs between Monk and various greats among saxmen: Coltrane, Rollins, and Coleman Hawkins.
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42
Thelonious Monk was only with Prestige from 1952-1954, which explains why Fantasy's The Complete Prestige Recordings contains only three CDs.
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44
Calling an album "The Essential Thelonious Monk" is a bit misleading, especially since all the material comes from one label: Columbia.
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45
Although nostalgia has allowed Monk's Blues to age more gracefully than perhaps the recording deserves, it remains an unfortunate fact that Thelonious Sphere Monk's final studio sessions were very po
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54
Blue Note's Jazz Profile series is designed for neophytes and beginners curious about a certain musician.
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Monk Up! How many Thelonious Monk recordings does a body need, and which ones? This set presents a considerable claim on the attention, being a selection of live recordings from concerts by versions
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