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Thelonious Monk, Plays Duke Ellington
Audio CD
Disk ID: 224278
Disk length: 37m 17s (8 Tracks)
Original Release Date: 1955
Label: Unknown
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Tracks & Durations
| 1. It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) | 4:41 |
| 2. Sophisticated Lady | 4:31 |
| 3. I Got It bad and That Ain't Good | 5:56 |
| 4. Black and Tan Fantasy | 3:26 |
| 5. Mood Indigo | 3:16 |
| 6. I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart | 5:43 |
| 7. Solitude | 3:45 |
| 8. Caravan | 5:54 |
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Review
Like Money Jungle, the later collaboration between Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, and Max Roach, this collection of Ellingtonia showed how much a modernist the Duke really was. Without a doubt, Ellington is more clearly recalled as an architect of the Swing Era, but in Monk's hands, Ellington's tunes sound as pregnant with post-swing potential as anything in the bebop canal. Monk recorded these tunes at the request of Riverside Records founder Orrin Keepnews, who knew how idiosyncratic the pianist was, and rather than produce literal transcriptions, Monk went all over the map. Stride shades drop in amid the off-center melody statements. And shot throughout all the tunes is Monk's persistently interstitial approach, whereby he spots seams and creases in every phrase and then fills, comments on, and dances around them. As the first chapter, if you will, in the Complete Riverside box set, this makes a great platform for viewing Monk's ascent into unbridled genius. --Andrew Bartlett
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Tracks: 8, Disk length: 37m 15s (-1m 58s)
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