artist:Thelonious Monk 2 notes
Thelonious Monk passed away in 1982, but his incredible jazz legacy keeps rolling with new compilations still dropping regularly. The latest was "The Greatest Hits Collection" in 2022, showing his genius piano work is still finding new ears decades later.
Apr 20
Monk's Music
Thelonious Monk · 1957 Spin it Again - The man who invented jazz piano silence put Coleman Hawkins and a twenty-nine-year-old Coltrane in the same room for one afternoon and hit record.
 genre:Jazz
Apr 5
Brilliant Corners
Thelonious Monk · 1957 Spin it Again - Monk wrote the title track so knotty his own band couldn't play it clean, so they spliced together two takes and called it done, and somehow that's the most honest thing on the record.
 genre:Bebop

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