Thelonious Monk (comic book + 2 CD) Vol 2

Quatre albums de Monk, oui quatre ! Réunis pour la premiére fois en deux CDs dans le présent écrin. Et pas n'importe lesquels : sans doute les plus révérés du pianiste, ceux qu'on emménerait sans hésiter sur une ile déserte. Ceux que le pianiste fou a enregistrés entre 1953 et 1956, soit en solo, soit en trío, soit encore en combo. Á ses cótés, au fil des séances, défile la fine fleur du jazz moderne de l'époque : les batteurs Kenny Clarke, Art Blakey et Max Roach, le bassiste Oscar Pettiford, le saxophoniste ténor Sonny Rollins, le trompettiste Clark Terry. Côté répertoire, du Monk pur jus, des standards monkisés á souhait et aussi, á tout seigneur tout honneur, une session consacrée á la musique du Duke. Un granel créateur de mondes sonores Bous toutes ses facettes, compositeur, soliste, accompagnateur, chef
d'orchestre. Silente, svp...
Four Monk albums! Yes, four of them, put together for the first time on the two CDs here. And they're not just any four albums: these are probably the pianist's most revertid works, those you'd take with you to a desert island. The outlandish Monk recorded them between `53 and `56, either solo or as duets, sometimes with a trío or a regular combo. Depending on the session, you can hear the best in Fifties' modern jazz: drummers Kenny Clarke, Art Blakey or Max Roach, bassist Oscar Pettiford, tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins, trumpeter Clark Terry... As for the tunes, they're pure Monk, whether original or Monkish (the set includes standards and, fittingly, a session devoted to the music of Duke). All of them show one of the greatest creators at work, building worlds of sound true to all his facets: composer, soloist, accompanist, bandleader. Quiet, please!


CONTENIDO DE LOS CDS:

CD1 THELONIOUS MONK (1954-1956)

- Portrait Of An Ermite
1 Round About Midnight
2 Evidence
3 Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
4 Well You Needn't
5 Reflections
6 Wee See
7 Eronel
8 Off Minor
9 Hackensack


- Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington
l0 It Don't Mean a Thing
11 Sophisticated Lady
12 I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good
13 Black and Tan Fantasy
14 Mood Indigo
15 I Let a Song Go Out of my Heart
16 Caravan
17 Solitude


CD2 THELONIOUS MONK (1956)
- The Unique Thelonious Monk
1 Just You, Just Me
2 You Are Too Beautiful
3 Honeysuckle Rose
4 Darn That Dream
5 Tea for Two

- Brilliant Corners
7 Ba-lue Bolivar Ba-lues Are
8 Pannonica
9 Brilliant Corners
10 I Surrender, Dear
11 Bemsha Swing