Music Of The Sphere-The Thelonious Mon- Music Of The Sphere: The Thelonious Monk Songbook
Any attempt to explain or describe Thelonious Monk's music would be useless. His genius lay in his ability to transcend categorization and create a new musical landscape with each composition. Here are eleven artists exploring Monk's sound-world and commenting on, reinventing and even enhancing the composer's works via their own creativity. With performances by Frank Morgan, Larry Coryell, Houston Person, Arthur Blythe, Larry Willis and others this is one Monk anthology you will return to over and over.
Tracklist:
- I Mean You
- Rhythm-a-Ning
- Trinkle Tinkle - Larry Coryell
- Stuffy Turkey
- Straight, No Chaser
- Ask Me Now
- Blue Monk
- Light Blue
- 'Round Midnight
- Ruby My Dear
- Evidence/Think of One
Any attempt to explain or describe Thelonious Monk's music would be useless. His genius lay in his ability to transcend categorization and create a new musical landscape with each composition. Here are eleven artists exploring Monk's sound-world and commenting on, reinventing and even enhancing the composer's works via their own creativity. With performances by Frank Morgan, Larry Coryell, Houston Person, Arthur Blythe, Larry Willis and others this is one Monk anthology you will return to over and over.
Tracklist:
- I Mean You
- Rhythm-a-Ning
- Trinkle Tinkle - Larry Coryell
- Stuffy Turkey
- Straight, No Chaser
- Ask Me Now
- Blue Monk
- Light Blue
- 'Round Midnight
- Ruby My Dear
- Evidence/Think of One