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This is a sublime smooth recording.....

I am enjoying the hell out of this these days!
Go Thelonius !

Fran wrote:

Ah, the late, great Art Pepper, what a wonderful musician he was.

dhyantyke wrote:I am enjoying the hell out of this these days!
Go Thelonius !

I am delighted, I love Monk too. That was a lovely compact group. Charlie Rouse played with Monk for several year, he was a beautiful tenor player, he graced the Ellington Orchestra for a year or so in the later forties too.

Seán wrote:

dhyantyke wrote:I am enjoying the hell out of this these days!
Go Thelonius !

I am delighted, I love Monk too. That was a lovely compact group. Charlie Rouse played with Monk for several year, he was a beautiful tenor player, he graced the Ellington Orchestra for a year or so in the later forties too.

Thanks Sean. I also have a few early Monk and a live with Coltrane at Carnegie Hall. Can you reccommend a couple other recordings?
I know you are a Stan Getz fan so I'll offer this for comment: I've only got the 'Sweet Rain' album but I don't connect emotionally with it in the way that Monk grabs me and draws me into the music.
Different genres?

dhyantyke wrote:

Seán wrote:

dhyantyke wrote:I am enjoying the hell out of this these days!
Go Thelonius !

I am delighted, I love Monk too. That was a lovely compact group. Charlie Rouse played with Monk for several year, he was a beautiful tenor player, he graced the Ellington Orchestra for a year or so in the later forties too.

Thanks Sean. I also have a few early Monk and a live with Coltrane at Carnegie Hall. Can you reccommend a couple other recordings?
I know you are a Stan Getz fan so I'll offer this for comment: I've only got the 'Sweet Rain' album but I don't connect emotionally with it in the way that Monk grabs me and draws me into the music.
Different genres?

An entirely different rhythmic pulse to be honest. Sweet Rain is marevllous though.

As for Monk, his music is very dinstictive, it's very much his own. Monk's Underground album is very good and you will get it and four more on this fine collection on Amazon.fr for €15:


http://www.amazon.fr/Original-Album-Cla ... 766&sr=8-3


and/or Monk with a variety of Jazz artists on this fine collection of 8 albums on amazon.fr for less than €9:
http://www.amazon.fr/8-Classic-Albums-T ... pd_sim_m_3