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PROFILES

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2 CD set. Each CD also contains a special full length bonus disc featuring other great Riverside artists. Ironically, in 1964, the year that Riverside 's doors closed, Thelonious Monk appeared on the cover of Time magazine. By then, he was recording for major label Columbia, even though he had made the rounds of the jazz indie world with stints at Blue Note, Prestige, and finally Riverside, where he recorded the most original and important work of his career. Time's Barry Farrell wrote of Monk: "It is his high philosophy to be different, and having steadily ignored all advice and all the fads and vogues of jazz that made lesser musicians grow rich around him, he now reaps the rewards of his conviction gladly but without surprise." By the end of the decade, Monk was among the most famous and best selling jazz musicians in the world. In this 10 track compilation, a sampling of Monk's Riverside oeuvre, recorded between 1955 and 1959, features such classics as "'Round Midnight," "Ruby, My Dear," "Epistrophy," and "Rhythm a ning," as well as the pianist covering Duke Ellington's "It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing."

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Epistrophy

Rhythm-A-Ning

Pannonica

It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)

Blue Monk

Off Minor

Ruby, My Dear

Nutty

Well, You Needn't

'Round Midnight

Dat Dere (a)

Airegen (b)

Soft Winds (c)

My Foolish Heart (d)

Desafinado (e)

Thermo (f)

Bemsha Swing (g)

Bohemia After Dark (h)

Personnel: Art Blakey, Donald Byrd, Kenny Clarke, John Coltrane, Ray Copeland, Johnny Griffin, Coleman Hawkins, Max Roach, more Bonus Disc: a- Bobby Timmons; b- Wes Montgomery; c- Chet Baker d- Bill Evans Trio; e- charlie Byrd; f- Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers; g- Thelonious Monk; h- the Cannonball Adderley Quintet

Label:	RIVERSIDE
Number:	30070
Item Code:	59867
Format:	2-CD
Genre:
Dates:	(1955-1959)
Price:	$14.00
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