Table of Contents
163 relations: A Fickle Sonance, A Little Moonlight, Abbey Lincoln, Album, AllMusic, Andalusian cadence, Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk, At the Blackhawk, Barbados, Bebop, Ben Riley, Ben Sidran, Benny Green (pianist), Big Band and Quartet in Concert, Black Hawk (nightclub), Black Lion Records, Blue Note Records, Blue Skies (Irving Berlin song), Bob Weinstock, Brilliant Corners, British English, Bud Powell, Bud Powell Trio, Carmen McRae, Carmen Sings Monk, Chaka Khan, Charlie Christian, Charlie Parker, Chick Corea, Chord progression, Clark Terry, Club Fugazi, Coleman Hawkins, Contrafact, Cootie Williams, Criss-Cross (album), Denzil Best, Dexter Gordon, Dianne Reeves, Discogs, Dizzy Gillespie, Echoes of an Era, Elmo Hope, Epistrophe, Eric Dolphy, Ethan Iverson, Five Spot Café, French language, Gary Giddins, Genius of Modern Music, Vol. 2, ... Expand index (113 more) »
- Compositions by Thelonious Monk
A Fickle Sonance
A Fickle Sonance is an album by American saxophonist Jackie McLean recorded in 1961 and released on the Blue Note label.
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A Little Moonlight
A Little Moonlight is an album by Dianne Reeves released in 2003.
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Abbey Lincoln
Anna Marie Wooldridge (August 6, 1930 – August 14, 2010), known professionally as Abbey Lincoln, was an American jazz vocalist.
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Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track or cassette), or digital.
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AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.
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Andalusian cadence
The Andalusian cadence (diatonic phrygian tetrachord) is a term adopted from flamenco music for a chord progression comprising four chords descending stepwise – a iv–III–II–I progression with respect to the Phrygian mode or i–VII–VI–V progression with respect to the Aeolian mode (minor).
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Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk
Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk is a studio album released in 1958 by Atlantic Records.
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At the Blackhawk
At the Blackhawk is a live album by American jazz pianist Thelonious Monk recorded on April 29, 1960 at the Black Hawk and released on Riverside later that year.
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Barbados
Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region next to North America and north of South America, and is the most easterly of the Caribbean islands.
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Bebop
Bebop or bop is a style of jazz developed in the early to mid-1940s in the United States.
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Ben Riley
Benjamin Alexander Riley Jr. (July 17, 1933 – November 18, 2017) was an American jazz drummer known for his work with Thelonious Monk, as well as Alice Coltrane, Stan Getz, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Ahmad Jamal, and as a member of the group Sphere.
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Ben Sidran
Ben Hirsh Sidran (born August 14, 1943) is an American jazz and rock keyboardist, producer, label owner, and music writer.
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Benny Green (pianist)
Benny Green (born April 4, 1963) is an American hard bop jazz pianist who was a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers.
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Big Band and Quartet in Concert
Big Band and Quartet in Concert is the fifth album Thelonious Monk released for Columbia Records, featuring several Monk compositions.
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Black Hawk (nightclub)
The Black Hawk was a San Francisco nightclub that featured live jazz performances during its period of operation from 1949 to 1963.
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Black Lion Records
Black Lion Records was a British jazz record company and label based in London, England.
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Blue Note Records
Blue Note Records is an American jazz record label owned by Universal Music Group and operated under Capitol Music Group.
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Blue Skies (Irving Berlin song)
"Blue Skies" is a popular song, written by Irving Berlin in 1926.
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Bob Weinstock
Bob Weinstock (October 2, 1928 – January 14, 2006) was an American record producer best known for his label Prestige Records, established in 1949, which was responsible for many significant jazz recordings during his more than two decades operating the firm.
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Brilliant Corners
Brilliant Corners is a studio album by American jazz musician Thelonious Monk.
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British English
British English is the set of varieties of the English language native to the island of Great Britain.
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Bud Powell
Earl Rudolph "Bud" Powell (September 27, 1924 – July 31, 1966) was an American jazz pianist and composer.
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Bud Powell Trio
Bud Powell Trio is a studio album by jazz pianist Bud Powell, released on Roost in 1957, featuring two sessions that Powell recorded in 1947 and 1953.
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Carmen McRae
Carmen Mercedes McRae (April 8, 1920 – November 10, 1994) was an American jazz singer.
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Carmen Sings Monk
Carmen Sings Monk is a 1990 studio album by the American jazz singer Carmen McRae, focusing exclusively on the songs composed by Thelonious Monk.
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Chaka Khan
Yvette Marie Stevens (born March 23, 1953), better known by her stage name Chaka Khan, is an American singer.
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Charlie Christian
Charles Henry Christian (July 29, 1916 – March 2, 1942) was an American swing and jazz guitarist.
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Charlie Parker
Charles Parker Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), nicknamed "Bird" or "Yardbird", was an American jazz saxophonist, band leader, and composer.
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Chick Corea
Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea (June 12, 1941 – February 9, 2021) was an American jazz pianist, composer, bandleader and occasional percussionist.
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Chord progression
In a musical composition, a chord progression or harmonic progression (informally chord changes, used as a plural) is a succession of chords.
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Clark Terry
Clark Virgil Terry Jr. (December 14, 1920 – February 21, 2015) was an American swing and bebop trumpeter, a pioneer of the flugelhorn in jazz, and a composer and educator.
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Club Fugazi
The Club Fugazi is a small theater and nightclub located in the North Beach district at 678 Green Street, San Francisco, California.
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Coleman Hawkins
Coleman Randolph Hawkins (November 21, 1904 – May 19, 1969), nicknamed "Hawk" and sometimes "Bean", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.
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Contrafact
A contrafact is a musical work based on a prior work.
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Cootie Williams
Charles Melvin "Cootie" Williams (July 10, 1911 – September 15, 1985) was an American jazz, jump blues, and rhythm and blues trumpeter.
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Criss-Cross (album)
Criss-Cross is an album by Thelonious Monk that was released by Columbia, his second for that label.
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Denzil Best
Denzil DaCosta Best (April 27, 1917 – May 24, 1965) was an American jazz percussionist and composer born in New York City.
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Dexter Gordon
Dexter Gordon (February 27, 1923 – April 25, 1990) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and bandleader.
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Dianne Reeves
Dianne Elizabeth Reeves (born October 23, 1956) is an American jazz singer.
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Discogs
Discogs (short for discographies) is a database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases.
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Dizzy Gillespie
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, educator and singer.
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Echoes of an Era
Echoes of an Era is an album by American R&B/jazz singer Chaka Khan, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke and Lenny White, released in 1982 on Elektra Records.
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Elmo Hope
St.
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Epistrophe
Epistrophe (ἐπιστροφή, "return") is the repetition of the same word or words at the end of successive phrases, clauses or sentences.
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Eric Dolphy
Eric Allan Dolphy Jr. (June 20, 1928 – June 29, 1964) was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist and bandleader.
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Ethan Iverson
Ethan Iverson (born February 11, 1973) is a pianist, composer, and critic best known for his work in the avant-garde jazz trio The Bad Plus with bassist Reid Anderson and drummer Dave King.
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Five Spot Café
The Five Spot Café was a jazz club located at 5 Cooper Square (1956–1962) in the Bowery neighborhood of New York City, between the East and West Village.
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French language
French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.
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Gary Giddins
Gary Giddins (born 1948) is an American jazz critic and author.
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Genius of Modern Music, Vol. 2
Genius of Modern Music, Vol.
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Genius of Modern Music, Vols. One & Two
Genius of Modern Music, Vols.
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Gerry Mulligan
Gerald Joseph Mulligan (April 6, 1927 – January 20, 1996), also known as Jeru, was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and arranger.
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Gigi Gryce
Gigi Gryce (born George General Grice Jr.; November 28, 1925 – March 17, 1983), later in life changing his name to Basheer Qusim, was an American jazz saxophonist, flautist, clarinetist, composer, arranger, and educator.
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Gil Fuller
Walter Gilbert "Gil" Fuller (April 14, 1920, Los Angeles, California – May 26, 1994, San Diego, California) was an American jazz arranger.
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Good Bait
"Good Bait" is a jazz composition written by American jazz piano player and composer Tadd Dameron and by band leader Count Basie.
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Gunther Schuller
Gunther Alexander Schuller (November 22, 1925June 21, 2015) was an American composer, conductor, horn player, author, historian, educator, publisher, and jazz musician.
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Guy Warren
Guy Warren of Ghana, also known as Kofi Ghanaba (4 May 1923 – 22 December 2008), was a Ghanaian musician, most notable as the inventor of Afro-jazz — "the reuniting of African-American jazz with its African roots" — and as a member of The Tempos, alongside E. T. Mensah.
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Heroin
Heroin, also known as diacetylmorphine and diamorphine among other names, is a morphinan opioid substance synthesized from the dried latex of the Papaver somniferum plant; it is mainly used as a recreational drug for its euphoric effects.
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Honeysuckle Rose (song)
"Honeysuckle Rose" is a 1929 song composed by Thomas "Fats" Waller with lyrics by Andy Razaf.
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Hudson River
The Hudson River is a river that flows from north to south primarily through eastern New York, United States.
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I Got Rhythm
"I Got Rhythm" is a piece composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin and published in 1930, which became a jazz standard.
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Iambic pentameter
Iambic pentameter is a type of metric line used in traditional English poetry and verse drama.
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Idrees Sulieman
Idrees Sulieman (August 7, 1923 – July 23, 2002) was an American bop and hard bop trumpeter.
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In Orbit (Clark Terry album)
In Orbit is an album by jazz trumpeter Clark Terry, also featuring Thelonious Monk, which was recorded in New York on May 7 & 12, 1958.
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Ira Gitler
Ira Gitler (December 18, 1928 – February 23, 2019) was an American jazz historian and journalist.
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Irving Berlin
Irving Berlin (born Israel Beilin; ישראל ביילין; May 11, 1888 – September 22, 1989) was an American composer and songwriter.
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It's Monk's Time
It's Monk's Time (1964) is the third studio album Thelonious Monk released on Columbia Records, and his sixth overall for that label.
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Jackie McLean
John Lenwood McLean (May 17, 1931 – March 31, 2006) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, composer, bandleader, and educator, and is one of the few musicians to be elected to the ''DownBeat'' Hall of Fame in the year of their death.
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Jazz Abstractions
Jazz Abstractions (subtitled John Lewis Presents Contemporary Music: Compositions by Gunther Schuller and Jim Hall) is a third stream album combining elements of jazz and classical music recorded in late 1960 for the Atlantic label.
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Jeanne Lee
Jeanne Lee (January 29, 1939 – October 25, 2000) was an American jazz singer, poet and composer.
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John Coltrane
John William Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967) was an American jazz saxophonist, bandleader and composer.
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Johnny Griffin
John Arnold Griffin III (April 24, 1928 – July 25, 2008) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.
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Jon Hendricks
John Carl Hendricks (September 16, 1921 – November 22, 2017), known professionally as Jon Hendricks, was an American jazz lyricist and singer.
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Julius Watkins
Julius Watkins (October 10, 1921 – April 4, 1977) was an American jazz musician who played French horn.
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Just You, Just Me
"Just You, Just Me" is a song from the 1929 musical film Marianne, composed by Jesse Greer with lyrics by Raymond Klages.
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Kenny Barron
Kenny Barron (born June 9, 1943) is an American jazz pianist, who has appeared on hundreds of recordings as leader and sideman and is considered one of the most influential mainstream jazz pianists since the bebop era.
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Kenny Clarke
Kenneth Clarke Spearman (January 9, 1914January 26, 1985), known professionally as Kenny Clarke and nicknamed Klook, was an American jazz drummer and bandleader.
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Leonard Feather
Leonard Geoffrey Feather (13 September 1914 – 22 September 1994) was a British-born jazz pianist, composer, and producer, who was best known for his music journalism and other writing.
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List of jazz contrafacts
A contrafact is a musical composition built using the chord progression of a pre-existing song, but with a new melody and arrangement.
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Live at the It Club
Live at the It Club is a Thelonious Monk album released posthumously by Columbia Records.
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Live at the Jazz Workshop
Live at the Jazz Workshop is a live album by jazz pianist Thelonious Monk, that was recorded at the Jazz Workshop in San Francisco.
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Lulu.com
Lulu Press, Inc., doing business under trade name Lulu, is an online print-on-demand, self-publishing, and distribution platform.
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Lydian mode
The modern Lydian mode is a seven-tone musical scale formed from a rising pattern of pitches comprising three whole tones, a semitone, two more whole tones, and a final semitone.
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Manhattan
Manhattan is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City.
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Margo Guryan
Margo Guryan (September 20, 1937 – November 8, 2021) was an American singer-songwriter.
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Mark Murphy (singer)
Mark Howe Murphy (March 14, 1932 – October 22, 2015) was an American jazz singer based at various times in New York City, Los Angeles, London, and San Francisco.
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Mary Lou Williams
Mary Lou Williams (born Mary Elfrieda Scruggs; May 8, 1910 – May 28, 1981) was an American jazz pianist, arranger, and composer.
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Max Roach
Maxwell Lemuel Roach (January 10, 1924 – August 16, 2007) was an American jazz drummer and composer.
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Merriam-Webster
Merriam-Webster, Incorporated is an American company that publishes reference books and is mostly known for its dictionaries.
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Miles & Monk at Newport
Miles & Monk at Newport is a split album featuring separate performances by the Miles Davis sextet and the Thelonious Monk quartet at the Newport Jazz Festival.
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Miles Davis
Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926September 28, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.
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Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants
Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants (PRLP 7150) is an album by Miles Davis, released on Prestige Records in 1959.
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Miles Davis at Newport 1955–1975: The Bootleg Series Vol. 4
Miles Davis at Newport 1955–1975: The Bootleg Series Vol.
Milestones (Miles Davis album)
Milestones is a studio album by Miles Davis.
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Milt Jackson
Milton Jackson (January 1, 1923 – October 9, 1999), nicknamed "Bags", was an American jazz vibraphonist.
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Milt Jackson and the Thelonious Monk Quintet
Milt Jackson and the Thelonious Monk Quintet is an album by American jazz vibraphonist Milt Jackson, recorded on July 2, 1948, July 23, 1951 and April 7, 1952 and released on Blue Note in 1956.
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Minton's Playhouse
Minton's Playhouse is a jazz club and bar located on the first floor of the Cecil Hotel at 210 West 118th Street in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City.
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Misterioso (Recorded on Tour)
Misterioso (Recorded on Tour) is a live album by Thelonious Monk, released for Columbia Records.
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Misterioso (Thelonious Monk album)
Misterioso is a 1958 live album by American jazz ensemble the Thelonious Monk Quartet.
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Modal jazz
Modal jazz is jazz that makes use of musical modes, often modulating among them to accompany the chords instead of relying on one tonal center used across the piece.
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Monk (1956 album)
Monk (Prestige PRLP 7053) is a 1956 compilation album by jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk, featuring material recorded from 1953 to 1954 for the Prestige label and performed by Monk with two quintets, one featuring Julius Watkins, Sonny Rollins, Percy Heath, and Willie Jones and one featuring Ray Copeland, Frank Foster, Curly Russell, and Art Blakey.
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Monk (1964 album)
Monk. (1964) is the fourth studio album Thelonious Monk released on Columbia Records, and his seventh album overall for that label.
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Monk in France
Monk in France is an album by jazz pianist Thelonious Monk, originally recorded on April 18, 1961.
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Monk in Tokyo
Monk in Tokyo is a live album recorded in 1963 and first released in Japan by Columbia Records as two separate LPs in 1963 (PSS 46 "In Tokyo 1" and PSS 47 "In Tokyo 2"), then in edited form as a single LP in 1969 by CBS/Sony Records and reissued in complete form as a double LP in 1973, featuring several original Monk compositions, as well as jazz standards.
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Monk's Blues
Monk's Blues is an album by Thelonious Monk accompanied by a big band arranged and conducted by Oliver Nelson.
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Monk's Dream (Thelonious Monk album)
Monk's Dream is an album by jazz pianist Thelonious Monk, released by Columbia Records in March 1963.
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Monk's Music
Monk's Music is a jazz album by the Thelonious Monk Septet, which for this recording included Coleman Hawkins and John Coltrane.
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Mosaic Records
Mosaic Records is an American jazz record company and label established in 1982 by Michael Cuscuna and Charlie Lourie.
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Mulligan Meets Monk
Mulligan Meets Monk is a studio album by American jazz pianist Thelonious Monk and baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan, originally released on Riverside Records in 1957.
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Nica's Tempo
Nica's Tempo is the most common latter-day title of an album by the Gigi Gryce Orchestra and Quartet, recorded and first released in late 1955.
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Oh, Lady Be Good!
"Oh, Lady Be Good!" is a 1924 song by George and Ira Gershwin.
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Oliver Nelson
Oliver Edward Nelson (June 4, 1932 – October 28, 1975) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, arranger, composer, and bandleader.
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Ornette Coleman
Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman (March 9, 1930 – June 11, 2015) was an American jazz saxophonist, trumpeter, violinist, and composer.
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Orrin Keepnews
Orrin Keepnews (March 2, 1923 – March 1, 2015) was an American jazz writer and record producer known for founding Riverside Records and Milestone Records, for freelance work, and for his work at other labels.
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Oscar Treadwell
Oscar Treadwell (born Arthur Pedersen) (May 11, 1926 - April 1, 2006) was an American jazz radio journalist and presenter.
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Pannonica de Koenigswarter
Baroness Kathleen Annie Pannonica de Koenigswarter (née Rothschild; 10 December 1913 – 30 November 1988) was a British-born jazz patron and writer.
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Paste (magazine)
Paste is an American monthly music and entertainment digital magazine, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, with studios in Atlanta and Manhattan, and owned by Paste Media Group.
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Pepper Adams
Park Frederick "Pepper" Adams III (October 8, 1930 – September 10, 1986) was an American jazz baritone saxophonist and composer.
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Piano Solo (Thelonious Monk album)
Piano Solo is a 1954 album by jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk, recorded in Paris, France, on June 4, 1954, originally for a radio broadcast.
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Ran Blake
Ran Blake (born April 20, 1935) is an American pianist, composer, and educator.
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Ray and Faye Copeland
Faye Della Copeland (née Wilson; August 4, 1921 – December 23, 2003) and Raymond W. Copeland (December 30, 1914 – October 19, 1993) became, at the ages of 69 and 76 respectively, the oldest couple ever sentenced to death in the United States.
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Refrain
A refrain (from Vulgar Latin refringere, "to repeat", and later from Old French refraindre) is the line or lines that are repeated in music or in poetry — the "chorus" of a song.
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Rhythm changes
Rhythm changes is a common 32-bar jazz chord progression derived from George Gershwin's "I Got Rhythm".
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Roger Vadim
Roger Vadim Plemiannikov (26 January 1928 – 11 February 2000) was a French screenwriter, film director and producer, as well as an author, artist and occasional actor.
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Sadik Hakim
Sadik Hakim (born Forrest Argonne Thornton; July 15, 1919 – June 20, 1983) was an American jazz pianist and composer.
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San Francisco
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.
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Savoy Ballroom
The Savoy Ballroom was a large ballroom for music and public dancing located at 596 Lenox Avenue, between 140th and 141st Streets in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.
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Solo Monk
Solo Monk (1965) is the fifth studio album Thelonious Monk recorded for Columbia Records, and his eighth overall for that label.
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Sonny Clark
Conrad Yeatis "Sonny" Clark (July 21, 1931 – January 13, 1963) was an American jazz pianist and composer who mainly worked in the hard bop idiom.
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Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2
Sonny Rollins, Vol.
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Standard (music)
In music, a standard is a musical composition of established popularity, considered part of the "standard repertoire" of one or several genres.
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Straight, No Chaser (Thelonious Monk album)
Straight, No Chaser is the sixth studio album Thelonious Monk recorded for Columbia records, released in 1967.
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Stride (music)
Stride jazz piano, often shortened to stride, is a jazz piano style that arose from ragtime players.
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Sweet Georgia Brown
"Sweet Georgia Brown" is a jazz standard composed in 1925 by Ben Bernie and Maceo Pinkard, with lyrics by Kenneth Casey.
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T. S. Monk
Thelonious Sphere Monk III (born December 27, 1949) is an American jazz drummer, composer and bandleader.
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Tap dance
Tap dance (or tap) is a form of dance that uses the sounds of tap shoes striking the floor as a form of percussion; it is often accompanied by music.
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Tea for Two (song)
"Tea for Two" is a 1924 song composed by Vincent Youmans, with lyrics by Irving Caesar.
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Teo Macero
Attilio Joseph "Teo" Macero (October 30, 1925 – February 19, 2008) was an American jazz record producer, saxophonist, and composer.
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The Musings of Miles
The Musings of Miles is the first 12" LP record by Miles Davis.
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The Newest Sound Around
The Newest Sound Around is an album by singer Jeanne Lee and pianist Ran Blake.
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The Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall
The Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall is an album by Thelonious Monk, released in 1959.
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The Unique Thelonious Monk
The Unique Thelonious Monk is a 1956 album by Thelonious Monk.
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The Village Voice
The Village Voice is an American news and culture publication based in Greenwich Village, New York City, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.
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Thelonious Alone in San Francisco
Thelonious Alone in San Francisco is jazz pianist Thelonious Monk's third solo album, recorded in 1959.
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Thelonious Himself
Thelonious Himself is a studio album by Thelonious Monk released in 1957 by Riverside Records.
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Thelonious in Action
Thelonious in Action is a 1958 live album by American jazz pianist Thelonious Monk, recorded at the Five Spot Café in the Bowery neighborhood of Manhattan on August 7, 1958, at the same show that produced Misterioso.
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Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Sphere Monk (October 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982) was an American jazz pianist and composer.
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Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins
Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins is a compilation album by jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk and saxophonist Sonny Rollins released in 1956 by Prestige Records.
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Thelonious Monk in Italy
Thelonious Monk in Italy is a live album by American jazz pianist Thelonious Monk featuring tracks recorded in Italy in 1961 and released on the Riverside label in 1963.
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Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall
Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall is a live album by the Thelonious Monk Quartet, which included John Coltrane at the time.
Thelonious Monk Trio
Thelonious Monk Trio is an album by American jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk.
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Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane
Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane is a 1961 album by Thelonious Monk issued on Jazzland Records, a subsidiary of Riverside Records.
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Thelonious Monk: The Complete Riverside Recordings
Thelonious Monk: The Complete Riverside Recordings is a comprehensive compilation of the recordings made by Thelonious Monk for Riverside Records between 21 July 1955 and 21 April 1961.
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This Old Man
"This Old Man" is an English language children's song, counting exercise, folk song, and nursery rhyme with a Roud Folk Song Index number of 3550.
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Timpani
Timpani or kettledrums (also informally called timps) are musical instruments in the percussion family.
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Topsy (instrumental)
"Topsy" is an instrumental by Count Basie and His Orchestra, released on August 9, 1937, written by Edgar Battle and Eddie Durham.
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Tritone substitution
The tritone substitution is a common chord substitution found in both jazz and classical music.
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Twelve-bar blues
The twelve-bar blues (or blues changes) is one of the most prominent chord progressions in popular music.
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Underground (Thelonious Monk album)
Underground is the seventh studio album that Thelonious Monk recorded for Columbia Records.
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Weehawken, New Jersey
Weehawken is a township in the northern part of Hudson County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
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Wilbur Ware
Wilbur Bernard Ware (September 8, 1923 – September 9, 1979) was an American jazz double bassist.
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5 by Monk by 5
5 by Monk by 5 is an album by American jazz pianist Thelonious Monk, recorded in June 1959 and released on Riverside later that year.
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52nd Street (Manhattan)
52nd Street is a one-way street traveling west to east across Midtown Manhattan, New York City, United States.
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See also
Compositions by Thelonious Monk
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References
Also known as 52nd Street Theme, Ask Me Now, Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues-Are, Bemsha Swing, Blue Monk, Bolivar Blues, Brilliant Corners (composition), Crepuscule with Nellie, Epistrophy (I Wanna Play), Epistrophy (composition), Fifty-second Street Theme, Four In One (composition), Get It Straight, I Mean You (composition), List of Thelonious Monk Compositions, Misterioso (composition), Off Minor (composition), Pannonica (composition), Reflections (Thelonious Monk song), Rhythm A Ning, Rhythm-A-Ning, Ruby, My Dear (composition), Straight No Chaser (composition), Straight No Chaser (song), Straight, No Chaser (composition), Straight, No Chaser (song), Thelonious (composition), Well You Needn't, Well You Neednt, Well, You Needn't, Well, You Needn't (It's Over Now), Well, You Neednt.