Monk, T
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The title track is historically significant as the first instance of Davis basing a theme and subsequent improvising around modal scales instead of the usual major and minor, starting him along... —
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Penguin Guide to Jazz, Core Collection
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Presto Music, Classic Jazz Recording
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Jazz 100, Top 100 Jazz Albums, Top 100 (Pre-1980)
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Awards:
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Penguin Guide to Jazz, Core Collection
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Presto Music, Classic Jazz Recording
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The New Yorker, Top 100 Jazz Albums
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Jazz 100, Top 100 Jazz Albums, Top 100 (Pre-1980)
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While the Detroit pianist left an impressive catalogue of studio recordings she was also an excellent live performer, and this 2012 concert with star guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel at the well appointed... —
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Jazzwise, Recommended Reissue/Archive, February 2024
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th January 2024
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Maybe Trilogy 2 is for Chick Corea completists, but it’s premier-league spontaneous music-making for all that. —
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Jazzwise, Editor's Choice, December 2019
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Grammy Awards, 63rd Awards (2021), Best Improvised Jazz Solo (Chick Corea)
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Grammy Awards, 63rd Awards (2021), Best Jazz Instrumental Album
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The first new Monk album to receive more than a guarded welcome in the press, the praise was entirely justified. Unlike his first two Riverside releases, respectively of Ellington standards... —
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Jazzwise, 100 Albums That Shook the World
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Penguin Guide to Jazz, Core Collection
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Jazz 100, Top 100 Jazz Albums, Top 100 (Pre-1980)
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Carmen Sings Monk
RecommendedGeorge Mraz (bass guitar), Al Foster (drums), Larry Willis (piano), Charlie Rouse (tenor saxophone), Eric Gunnison (piano), Clifford Jordan (tenor saxophone), Carmen McRae (vocal), George Mraz (bass), Clifford Jordan (saxophone), Clifford Jordan (soprano saxophone)
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Grammy Awards, 34th Awards (1991), Nominee: Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female
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Jazz 100, Top 100 Jazz Albums, Top 100 (Post-1980)
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1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die, Jazz Recommendation
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Genius Of Modern Music Volume One
RecommendedThelonious Monk (piano), Art Blakey (drums), Bob Paige (bass), George Taitt (trumpet), Sahib Shihab (alto saxophone), Gene Ramey (bass), Shadow Wilson (drums), Milt Jackson (vibraphone), John Simmons (bass), Idrees Sulieman (trumpet), Danny Quebec West (alto saxophone), Billy Smith (tenor saxophone)
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Penguin Guide to Jazz, Crowned
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The New Yorker, Top 100 Jazz Albums
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Jazz 100, Top 100 Jazz Albums, Top 100 (Pre-1980)
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The American musician shifts away from 12-bar blues to ‘an energy’ in this mix of seven originals and Monk and Coltrane covers… An innovative homage to tradition. —
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Jazzwise, Editor's Choice, March 2024
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd February 2024
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Tone Poem
RecommendedCharles Lloyd & The Marvels, Eric Harland (drums), Greg Leisz (steel guitar), Reuben Rogers (bass), Bill Frisell (guitar), Charles Lloyd (tenor saxophone, alto flute)
Over Frisell’s boogieing groove, his quavering upper tone and squabbling whispers muse over languid country-ballad guitar harmonies on Leonard Cohen’s Anthem. Bola de Nieve’s Ay Amor! is a highlight,... —
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Jazzwise, Editor's Choice, April 2021
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th April 2021
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The Guardian, Jazz Album of the Month, March 2021
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