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Thelonious Monk Quartet, Misterioso
Audio CD
Disk ID: 561718
Disk length: 47m 27s (6 Tracks)
Original Release Date: 1988
Label: Unknown
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Tracks & Durations
| 1. Nutty | 5:24 |
| 2. Blues Five Spot | 8:16 |
| 3. Let's Cool One | 9:15 |
| 4. In Walked Bud | 11:23 |
| 5. Just a Gigolo | 2:08 |
| 6. Misterioso | 10:57 |
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Review
After he was denied club work in New York for years because a marijuana conviction kept him from holding a "cabaret card," Thelonious Monk's late-'50s stays at the Five Spot provided him with a forum through which he could reach an audience and also acted as an intense musical laboratory. Misterioso and its companion disc, Thelonious in Action, were Monk's first professionally recorded live dates, and they feature the excellent 1958 quartet with tenorist Johnny Griffin stretching out on Monk tunes like "In Walked Bud" and "Evidence." Monk could not only find new dissonances, but he could also find new meanings for dissonance, imbuing his sometimes elliptical, even minimalist, compositions with a joyous playfulness. Griffin adds a strong blues flavor and some unlikely quotations that leaven his intense focus. If this nugget tickles the ear enough to drive you toward the completist's deep end, check out Monk's Complete Riverside Recordings mega-box. --Stuart Broomer
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