He has two left hands,РІР‚Сњ was how one New York record store owner responded to MonkРІР‚в„ўs piano playing. Given the radical yet highly stylized characteristics of his music РІР‚вЂњ which he blueprinted on his very first recordings for the Blue Note label in 1947 РІР‚вЂњ Monk met with more opposition from the jazz establishment than Parker and Gillespie. In the main, bebop was a high-octane music driven by Parker and GillespieРІР‚в„ўs virtuosic athleticism but Monk, who was the eldest of bopРІР‚в„ўs holy trinity, created his own distinctive musical universe that was defined by quirky chromatic choruses, disquieting dissonant notes, and, on the whole, much slower tempi.

Monk initially rose to fame alongside alto saxophonist Charlie Parker and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie in the vanguard of the bebop movement in New York during the mid 1940s. Although he was a trailblazer who pioneered a uniquely percussive approach to the piano and developed a peculiar musical language that some found difficult to understand, his greatest achievement was writing over 70 memorable songs, several of which became jazz standards. D.Born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, Thelonious Monk is undoubtedly one of the most important РІР‚вЂњ and controversial РІР‚вЂњ figures in the history of jazz.

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The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9thР’В ed.).

Sonny Rollins - tenor saxophone (tracks 5-7).

Julius Watkins - French horn (tracks 5-7).

Frank Foster - tenor saxophone (tracks 1-4).

Tracks B1 and B2 originally released as one side of 10' LP Thelonious Monk Quintet Blows For LP, Featuring Sonny Rollins (Prestige PrLP 166), and as 7' PrEP 1352.

Side 2 recorded at WOR Studios, New York City on November 13, 1953.

Side 1 recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio in Hackensack, NJ, on May 11, 1954, and originally released in sequence as the 10' LP Thelonious Monk Quintet (with Frank Foster, Art Blakey) (Prestige PrLP 180).

' Smoke Gets in Your Eyes' ( Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern ) - 4:34.

Track listing All compositions by Thelonious Monk except as indicated Reception Р”Р„llmusic's Scott Yanow states 'Every Thelonious Monk recording is well worth getting although this one is not quite essential'. Its release was preceded in the Prestige 12-inch catalog of Monk's work by Thelonious Monk Trio (Prestige PRLP 7027), and followed by Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins (Prestige PRLP 7075). (This LP release added an additional take of 'Think of One.')Р”В¬hris Sheridan, in his book Brilliant Corners: A Bio-discography of Thelonious Monk, dates the first 12-inch vinyl release of the album- Thelonious Monk (Prestige PRLP 7053)-to 1956. Most of the recordings on this album first appeared on two 10' LPs: Thelonious Monk Quintet Blows for LP (Prestige PrLP 166) and Thelonious Monk Quintet (with Frank Foster, Art Blakey) (Prestige PrLP 180), both released in 1954.

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