Thelonious Monk - The Art of the Ballad
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Artist: Thelonious MonkEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-05-19
Music Label: Prestige
Soundtracks:
- Ruby, My Dear
- Tea for Two
- 'Round Midnight
- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
- I Surrender, Dear
- Crepuscule with Nellie [Take 6]
- Mood Indigo
- Pannonica
- Monk's Mood
- Sweet and Lovely
- I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart
- April in Paris
- Ruby, My Dear
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Free Music Review: Smooth as a Sunday Morning
Hit: 5 Stars
I reached under my pillow and there it was... this slim box, gift wrapped with love. Irresistable. The gift giver was a Monk fan who knows good music, especially jazz, so when I unwrapped "The Art of the Ballad" I knew it would be good. It was a Sunday morning, and I put the CD on to play while sipping my first cup of coffee. Mmmm. Right time of day, right type of music, right setting of a Sunday mood. Monk, I've learned, is always a surprise. His music changes with his moods, and his moods are many and varied... and always colorful. His name belongs at the top when the topic is bebop, blues, jazz, or very simply - the musically unique. I've heard Monk described as wild, as angular, working over broken rhythms until the listener's ear is jolted into life. This collection of ballads, however, is smooth from beginning to end. Monk works his magic on the piano in each ballad, sometimes unaccompanied - as in "I Surrender, Dear" and in "'Round Midnight" - but on other ballads, Coltrane joins him on sax ("Crepuscule with Nellie", Monk's romantic tribute to his wife), or a background of bass, drums, or unobtrusive brass, completes the mood. I've become relatively well acquainted with Monk's music by now... but this collection of ballads is easily my fast favorite. It may just become a Sunday morning tradition.
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