Thelonious Monk "April In Paris" 2x LP w/obi VIJ-5070-1 NM Japan
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Theonious Monk "April In Paris" 2xLP Riverside VIJ-5070-1 (Japan)
Vinyl is NM, Jacket is NM with/obi band!
Black Label
Track Listing:
A1 Epistrophy 6:16 A2 April In Paris 1:20 A3 I'm Getting Sentimental Over You 8:32 A4 Just A Gigolo 1:41 B1 I Mean You 10:59 B2 Jackie-ing 10:08 C1 Off Minor 11:39 C2 Rhythm-a-ning 10:34 D1 Hackensack 9:45 D2 Well, You Needn't 11:27 Thelonious Sphere Monk (October 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982) was an American jazz pianist and composer considered one of the giants of American music. Monk had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "Epistrophy", "'Round Midnight", "Blue Monk", "Straight, No Chaser" and "Well, You Needn't". Monk is the second most recorded jazz composer after Duke Ellington, which is particularly remarkable as Ellington composed over 1,000 songs while Monk wrote about 70.His compositions and improvisations are full of dissonant harmonies and angular melodic twists, and are consistent with Monk's unorthodox approach to the piano, which combined a highly percussive attack with abrupt, dramatic use of silences and hesitations. This was not a style universally appreciated; poet and jazz critic Philip Larkin dismissed Monk as 'the elephant on the keyboard'.
Monk's manner was idiosyncratic. Visually, he was renowned for his distinctive style in suits, hats and sunglasses. He was also noted for the fact that at times, while the other musicians in the band continued playing, he would stop, stand up from the keyboard and dance for a few moments before returning to the piano.
He is one of five jazz musicians to have been featured on the cover of Time (the other four being Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Wynton Marsalis, and Dave Brubeck) as of 2010.
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