Listening path
Thelonious Monk
How well do you know Monk's records?
INew to themThelonious Monk wrote some of the best-loved tunes in jazz and played piano like nobody before or since: spare, angular, full of surprise and humour. This path starts with his friendliest record, then goes back to the beginning and walks forward through trio, solo, septet, sideman, live and big band settings.12 records · start →III know the classicsYou know *Brilliant Corners*, *Monk's Music* and the Five Spot. This path fills in the rest of the story: the Blue Note sides that sit behind the famous ones, the Prestige dates with Sonny Rollins and Miles Davis, the Riverside years with Coltrane, Mulligan and Griffin, and the bands of the early 1960s.12 records · start →IIII know them wellFor the listener who has the records. This path runs roughly in order, from a 1950 studio date with Charlie Parker through sideman dates, posthumous odds and ends, the 1961 European concerts and the later Columbia years, ending in 1967 with a Japanese song.12 records · start →