Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners
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Artist: Thelonious MonkEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1991-07-01
Music Label: Ojc
Soundtracks:
- Brilliant Corners
- Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues-Are
- Pannonica
- I Surrender, Dear
- Bemsha Swing
Free Music Notes for Brilliant Corners
Free Music Review: Kind of scratching my head...
Hit: 4 Stars
..not at the album per se, but at the accolades. Only the truly musically inclined and the experts get this one. For some reason, I can't get into it. I have exactly zero music acuity and knowledge, but I own ten Monk CDs and this is one of my least favorite. I like "I surrender, dear," and "Bemsha Swing." Beyond that, the other songs are average to me. I give it four stars, because there are no bad Monk albums.
Brilliant Corners Poster
Few composers or improvisers can match the originality of pianist Thelonious Monk. Quirky yet rigorously logical, Monk's playful but always purposeful choice of skewed melodies and interrupted rhythm patterns gave the bebop movement, and jazz in total, a new sound that was totally modern. Although he created a surprisingly limited body of compositions, his impact on the vocabulary and canon of jazz is second to none, including such prolific giants as Duke Ellington. Brilliant Corners is a triumph of both performance and conception: the two small-group sessions, anchored by Monk, drummer Max Roach, and the bass work of either Oscar Pettiford or Paul Chambers, feature superb front-line performances by saxophonists Sonny Rollins and the tragically under-recorded Ernie Henry, as well as trumpeter Clark Terry. The title track, which centers the collection, is one of Monk's most unconventional pieces, skirting whole-tone, chromatic and Lydian scales; a version of "Pannonica" finds Monk doubling on celeste, while the band stretches out on "Bemsha Swing" and the blues "Ba-lue Bolivar Ba-lues-are." --Fred GoodmanDigitally remastered using K2 bit technology, this is a Japanese reissue of the great pianist's 1956 album for the Prestige label in a miniaturized LP sleeve limited to the initial pressing only. Five tracks. The All-Music Guide gave the album four & a ha
Japanese Version featuring 20bit K2 Mastering and Limited Edition LP Style Slipcase for Initial Pressing Only.
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