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Music critic Tom Moon has the story of this Thelonious Monk gem, a selection from National Public Radio's list of the 100 most important American musical recordings of the 20th Century.Although he remained long misunderstood and little known, both his playing and his compositions had a formative influence on modern jazz.When Monk was four his family moved to New York, which was his home until he retired.Round about Midnight was recorded by Cootie Williams, who collaborated with him in its composition.By this time Monk was playing at the Spotlite Club on 52nd Street with Dizzy Gillespie's orchestra.NPR's Basic Jazz Record Library: Thelonious Monk
NPR's Murray Horwitz and jazz critic and poet AB Spellman recommend the album The Genius of Modern Music (Blue Note) by Thelonious Monk.In 1952 Monk acquired a contract from Prestige Records, with which he remained associated for three years.Although this was perhaps the leanest period in his career in terms of live performances, he recorded such notable works as the remarkable Little Rootie Tootie (dedicated to his son), a daring version of Jerome Kern's Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, and perhaps his finest solo performance, Bags' Groove, in a memorable session with the Miles Davis All Stars on Christmas Eve 1954.In 1955 Prestige, dissatisfied with the low sales of Monk's recordings, sold his contract to Riverside Records.This latter recording and three of his next albums for Riverside (Brilliant Corners, Thelonious Himself, and Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane) were masterpieces, and Monk became the most acclaimed and controversial jazz improviser of the late 1950s almost overnight.He also continued to issue albums for Riverside.He was also made the subject of a cover story by Time (1964), an honor bestowed on only three other jazz musicians.In November 1971 he made solo and trio recordings for Black Lion Records in London, which some critics felt heralded a new era in his development, but shortly afterwards he suddenly retired from public view.The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, Oxford University Press.Copying or other reproduction is prohibited.You have no recently viewed items or searches.After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.US Music Experts and Writers: Want to write for AMG?BopHard BopModal MusicMainstream JazzModern Big BandProgressive JazzMoodsInstrumentsHumorousPassionateExuberantStylishFreewheelingEarthyWhimsicalWittySearchingPlayfulIrreverentEnigmaticSophisticatedQuirkyConfidentComplexWryUpliftingThoughtfulSprawlingStatelyPianoComposerLeaderOther EntriesMovie EntryAMG Artist IDP 106839Corrections to this Entry?Biographyby Scott YanowThe most important jazz musicians are the ones who are successful in creating their own original world of music with its own rules, logic, and surprises.Thelonious Monk, who was criticized by observers who failed to listen to his music on its own terms, suffered through a decade of neglect before he was suddenly acclaimed as a genius; his music had not changed one bit in the interim.Thelonious Monk grew up in New York, started playing piano when he was around five, and had his first job touring as an accompanist to an evangelist.He was inspired by the Harlem stride pianists (...Other EntriesMovie EntrySimilar ArtistsBud PowellBarry HarrisBenny GreenMulgrew MillerMcCoy TynerHerbie NicholsKenny KirklandElmo HopeJohn HicksGeri AllenArt BlakeySee AlsoAl FosterArt TaylorBoo MonkT.MonkNellie MonkThelonious Monk QuartetThelonious Monk OrchestraThelonious Monk QuintetThelonious Monk SextetThelonious Monk TrioThelonious Monk NonetInfluenced ByDuke EllingtonTeddy WilsonFollowersMose AllisonTeddy CharlesThe Dirty Dozen Brass BandBarry HarrisCecil TaylorHugh LawsonBobby NaughtonHenri RenaudKenny CoxMike LeDonneOrnette ColemanJohn ColtraneChick CoreaGiancarlo SchiaffiniEric MintelFullerRobert Anbian and the UfqPerformed Songs ByCootie WilliamsBernie HanighenKenny ClarkeIra GershwinGeorge GershwinColeman HawkinsIke QuebecJerome KernDuke EllingtonIrving CaesarE.Thelonious Monk is not usually considered a "bebop" piano player, but was part of that small but select group of jazz musicians who were responsible for the birth of a new kind of jazz in the early 1940's, which was at the time called bebop.In 1962 he began recording for Columbia.During the 60's he led a quartet featuring Charlie Rouse on tenor, a group which recorded and toured extensively.He retired from touring and recording in the early seventies.His last recordings were made in Europe in November 1971 while on a 'Giants of Jazz' tour for George Wein.His piano playing and his compositions have an oddness about them, a strange angularity that is not always easily assimilated, but pays back dividends for those willing to listen.Many of his recordings are of his own compositions but his treatment of Tin Pan Alley standards like "Tea for Two", "Liza", and "Memories of You" show his unique approach to the keyboard.There's a new email list you can join,all about Thelonious Monk.This, as well as the website 'logo' at the top of each page will bring you back here to the start page.You're welcome to link to this website, but please use the "home" URL
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