- jazz, contemporary jazz
- 37 min
- 8 tracks
- Riverside
Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington, also known as Thelonious Monk Plays the Music of Duke Ellington, is an album by American jazz pianist Thelonious Monk which was recorded in July 1955 and released on Riverside later that year. The album contains Monk's versions of songs by Duke Ellington.
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Intimate, spare, grave and character-led.
- intimateepic
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
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- AllMusic4/5 ★
- The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings3/4 ★
- PopMatters9/10 ★
- The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide3/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)4:42
- 2Sophisticated Lady4:32
- 3I Got It Bad (And That Ain’t Good)5:57
- 4Black and Tan Fantasy3:29
- 5Mood Indigo3:17
- 6I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart5:44
- 7Solitude3:46
- 8Caravan5:56
8 tracks, 37 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Thelonious Monk
- Label
- Riverside
- Type
- Album
- Format
- Digital Media
- Country
- XW
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