Thelonious Monk Mønk (Gearbox CD 1841) Live recordings are a precious part of any Jazz collection. If the recording quality is good and the performance outstanding you have a gem to treasure. This session in Copenhagen in 1963 certainly deserves that description. I heard this quartet at the De Montfort Hall in Leicester in […]
This year would have been Thelonious Monk’s 100th birthday, and the plethora of tributes from critics, musicians and fans alike have been ample evidence of his continuing importance on the contemporary scene. It’s interesting to compare his current stature with that of his contemporary, Dizzy Gillespie, also born in 1917. It could be fairly […]
Pete Recommends…The Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall Each month Peter Batten recommends a recording that jazz fans may wish to add to their personal library. When I moved to Hove in 1999 I decided to make my library of jazz recordings more specialised. The first step was to collect […]