Thelonious Monk - Genius Of Modern Music, Vol. 2 (1952) CD Rip

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Title: Genius Of Modern Music, Vol. 2
Year Of Release: 1989
Label: Blue Note [CDP 7 81511 2]
Genre: Jazz, Bop
Quality: FLAC (tracks + .cue,log,scans) | MP3/320 kbps
Total Time: 60:32
Total Size: 335 MB(+3%) | 143 MB(+3%)
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Tracklist

01. Four In One [0:03:31.35]
02. Four In One (Alt. Take) [0:03:30.12]
03. Criss Cross [0:02:57.30]
04. Criss Cross (Alt. Take) [0:02:51.10]
05. Eronel [0:03:04.53]
06. Straight No Chaser [0:02:58.07]
07. Ask Me Now (Alt. Take) [0:04:28.65]
08. Ask Me Now [0:03:16.03]
09. Willow Weep For Me [0:03:02.67]
10. Skippy [0:03:01.68]
11. Skippy (Alt. Take) [0:03:10.22]
12. Hornin' In (Alt. Take) [0:03:09.58]
13. Hornin' In [0:03:14.72]
14. Sixteen (First Take) [0:03:31.10]
15. Sixteen (Second Take) [0:03:40.05]
16. Carolina Moon [0:03:28.55]
17. Let's Cool One [0:03:49.25]
18. I'll Follow You [0:03:46.25]
Thelonious Monk - Genius Of Modern Music, Vol. 2 (1952) CD Rip

personnel :

Thelonious Monk - piano
Kenny "Pancho" Hagood- vocals
Lou Donaldson, Sahib Shihab, Danny Quebec West - alto saxophone
Billy Smith , Lucky Thompson, Bill Smith - tenor saxophone
Idrees Sulieman, Kenny Dorham, George Taitt - trumpet
Milt Jackson - vibraphone
Max Roach, Art Blakey, Shadow Wilson - drums

On the second volume in this two-disc series Thelonious Monk has come fully into his own as a leader. The program consists almost entirely of original compositions, and in fact it opens with two of his most difficult: "Four in One" (with its conventional bop intro that leads into a bizarre, repeated five-against-two quintuplet sequence) and the forbiddingly abstract "Criss Cross." Get through those and you'll eventually be rewarded with the relatively straightforward, blues-based "Straight No Chaser" and the sweet ballad "Ask Me Now," among other treats. Sidemen include the young trumpeter Kenny Dorham and bassist Al McKibbon, as well as a more clued-in Art Blakey and (replacing Blakey on half of the program) Max Roach. Sahib Shihab's sax tone is more appropriate this time out, and the production quality is somewhat better. This disc, along with Volume 1, belongs in every jazz collection. [The CD reissue includes numerous alternate takes and features a chronological song order; thus, its program is very different from that of the LP that it duplicates in the catalog. The same is true of Volume 1.]~Rick Anderson