![]() Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall - historic and influential if short-lived '57 quartet with Coltrane captured liveĬlick to expand.Others will have to answer that. ![]() Monk's Music may be Monk's best single album (although with a guy whose recording career began in 1948, albums aren't really the best measure of Monk's output) Thelonious Himself is Monk's first solo piano album and the version of "Round Midnight" is like a little Monk piano sonata Thelonious Monk Trio on Prestige pulls together his great early trio dates for the label is almost a primer in the Monk piano style and also features the introduction of more classicsīrilliant Corners is a great and great sounding album featuring Sonny Rollins and one of Monk's most brilliant original tunes Round Midnight: The Complete Blue Note Singles is I think the best way to hear his earliest recordings as a leader and some of his best plus the takes that introduce most of his most famous compositions I'd go chronologically, others might do it differently: You could begin with any one of these (or all of them).
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