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Thu Oct-14-04 03:09 AM
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| Favorite Thelonious Monk Compositions... |
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Evidence
In Walked Bud
Ruby My Dear
'Round Midnight (of course)
--IMM
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Thu Oct-14-04 03:15 AM
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Epistrophy
Straight, No Chaser
Locomotive
Bemsha Swing
Well, You Needn't
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Thu Oct-14-04 03:22 AM
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Thu Oct-14-04 03:29 AM
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| 3. Original recording is one of his quintets... |
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Edited on Thu Oct-14-04 03:30 AM by Spider Jerusalem
with Sonny Rolins on tenor...forget right now which album, but it's quite good.
EDIT: Okay, it was on "Straight, No Chaser".
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Thu Oct-14-04 03:39 AM
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One of those Riverside records.
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Thu Oct-14-04 04:56 AM
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"Four in One"
"Jackie-ing"
"Little Rootie Tootie"
"Friday the 13th"
"Think of One"
"Well, You Needn't"
"Off Minor"
"Misterioso"
"Criss Cross"
"Rhythm-a-ning"
"Shuffle Boil"
and five wonderful ballads (aside from the incomparable "'Round Midnight"):
"Reflections"
"Ask Me Now"
"Monk's Mood"
"Pannonica"
"Ugly Beauty"
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Thu Oct-14-04 06:11 AM
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Thu Oct-14-04 07:45 AM
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I am a Monk disciple of the first order. He can do no wrong, in my book.
The Professor
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Thu Oct-14-04 07:48 AM
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| 8. Crepuscule with Nellie |
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Loveliest ballad I know.
There's also a fairly obscure one called "Coming on the Hudson," on the record called That's the Way I Feel Now (the record Columbia let NRBQ's Terry Adams put together from their vaults-- out of print now, I'm afraid).
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Thu Oct-14-04 08:13 AM
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| 9. Straight, No Chaser for me... |
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...and the Buddy Rich Big Band did the best cover of that song, IMO.
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Thu Oct-14-04 08:35 AM
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| 10. You ever heard Miles and Trane's version? |
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I think that's better, but then, that's just my opinion...
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Thu Oct-14-04 08:40 AM
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| 11. No, but I'd give it a try - Miles has always been a tough one for me... |
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Thu Oct-14-04 08:51 AM
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| 13. Later Miles is kind of hit-or-miss... |
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Edited on Thu Oct-14-04 08:51 AM by Spider Jerusalem
but his early work with Bird and his late-'50's through mid-'60's quintets were brilliant. I mean, come on. "Kind of Blue"? "Miles Smiles"? Great stuff.
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Fri Oct-15-04 01:36 AM
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| 14. Clark Terry and Bob Brookmeyer |
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did a great version of Straight, No Chaser in the sixties. Great group that I used to see at the old Half Note.
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