Thelonious Monk: Brilliant Corners [LP 1982] Jazz, Max Roach, Sonny Rollins

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[Vinyl looks NM]

    Thelonious Monk ?– Brilliant Corners

Label:
 Original Jazz Classics ?– OJC-026, Riverside Records ?– RLP-226
Format:
 Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono, 12", 33rpm
Country:
 US
Released:
 1982
Genre:
 Jazz
Style:
 Hard Bop, Beebop

Tracklist

A1     Brilliant Corners     7:42
A2     Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues-Are     13:08
B1     Pannonica   Celesta – Thelonious Monk    8:50
B2     I Surrender, Dear Written-By – Clifford, Barris    5:25
B3     Bemsha Swing,    Composed By – Best, Monk, Timpani – Max Roach    7:42

Credits

    Alto Saxophone – Ernie Henry (tracks: A1 to B1)
    Bass – Oscar Pettiford (tracks: A1 to B1), Paul Chambers (3) (tracks: B3)
    Composed By – Thelonious Monk (tracks: A1 to B1)
    Design [Cover] – Paul Bacon (2)
    Drums – Max Roach (tracks: A1 to B1, B3)
    Engineer – Jack Higgins
    Piano – Thelonious Monk
    Producer, Liner Notes – Orrin Keepnews
    Tenor Saxophone – Sonny Rollins (tracks: A1 to B1, B3)
    Trumpet – Clark Terry (tracks: B3)

Notes

Recorded at Reeves Sound Studios, New York, December 1956. Originally issued as RLP 12-226, Contemporary Series.

© 1982, Fantasy, Inc. Sleeve is a facsimile reproduction of the original release, except for the addition of the OJC cat# in top-right corner of backliner cover.

- Thelonious Sphere Monk was an American jazz pianist and composer. Monk had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "'Round Midnight", "Blue Monk", "Straight, No Chaser", "Ruby, My Dear", "In Walked Bud", and "Well, You Needn't". Monk is the second most-recorded jazz composer after Duke Ellington, which is particularly remarkable as Ellington composed more than a thousand pieces, whereas Monk wrote about 70.

His compositions and improvisations feature dissonances 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 switched key releases, silences and hesitations.

He was renowned for his distinctive style in suits, hats, and sunglasses. He was also noted for an idiosyncratic habit observed at times during performances: 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.

Monk is one of five jazz musicians to have been featured on the cover of Time, after Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck, and Duke Ellington and before Wynton Marsalis.

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