Pre-Order: Thelonious Monk - It's Monk's Time [LP] Rhythm & Blues

Pre-Order: Thelonious Monk - It's Monk's Time [LP] Rhythm & BluesWith it's three compositions by Thelonious Monk, one might call this LP from 1964 "3 Standards and 3 Monks". The 'High Priest' of bebop had reached a further pinnacle in his career and performed with his fantastic, skilful and well rehearsed quartet at numerous festivals and concerts. As if in a dream, the musicians penetrate the apparently simple yet rhythmically complicated themes, interrupted again and again by Monk's solo escapades on the piano.

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Walls and Bridges was written

dust-kicking vintage stomper

The Circle Closes

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His first release "Soul Clap" is a classic

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but the ways these touchstones get infused keep changing

It takes someone driven

Very few would even attempt to combine Westerberg-ian everyman rock with gonzo autotuned vocal runs

After the passing of Lee "Scratch" Perry

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