The Thelonious Monk Quartet - Live Five Spot 1958 Revisited (2023)

Tracklist

01. Light Blue
02. Coming On The Hudson
03. Rhythm-A-Ning
04. Blue Monk
05. Evidence
06. Nutty
07. Blues Five Spot
08. Let's Cool One
09. In Walked Bud
10. Misterioso

Temporary Super Offer! Johnny Griffin came to Thelonius Monk with a reputation as a speed demon – double-timing the tempo was his default mechanism, elaborating melodies with a mixture of mellow swing and complex bop phrasing. Their contrasting nature – Griffin’s fluid extravagance and Monk’s percussive dissections – intensified by Roy Haynes’ forceful divisions of the beat, generate a tension unlike any of Monk’s subsequent groups' – Art Lange

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