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Thelonious Monk's Seminal 'Brilliant Corners' Gets Reissue

As the latest entry in a carefully curated audiophile series, jazz icon Thelonious Monk s 1957 masterpiece Brilliant Corners sounds better than ever. ....

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Best Thelonious Monk Pieces: 20 Jazz Classics

Born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina,
Thelonious Monk is undoubtedly one of the most important – and controversial – figures in the history of jazz. Although he was a trailblazer who pioneered a uniquely percussive approach to the piano and developed a peculiar musical language that some found difficult to understand, his greatest achievement was writing over 70 memorable songs, several of which became jazz standards.
Monk initially rose to fame alongside alto saxophonist
Charlie Parker and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie in the vanguard of the bebop movement in New York during the mid 1940s. In the main, bebop was a high-octane music driven by Parker and Gillespie’s virtuosic athleticism but Monk, who was the eldest of bop’s holy trinity, created his own distinctive musical universe that was defined by quirky chromatic choruses, disquieting dissonant notes, and, on the whole, much slower tempi. Given the radical yet highly stylized characteristics of his music – ....

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