- jazz
- 7 tracks
- Prestige
Monk is a 1956 compilation album by jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk, featuring material recorded from 1953 to 1954 for the Prestige label and performed by Monk with two quintets, one featuring Julius Watkins, Sonny Rollins, Percy Heath, and Willie Jones and one featuring Ray Copeland, Frank Foster, Curly Russell, and Art Blakey.
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Character
Spare, character-led, intimate and grave.
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
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- AllMusic4/5 ★
- The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings3.5/4 ★
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Tracks
- A1We See
- A2Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
- A3Locomotive
- A4Hackensack
- B1Let’s Call This
- B2Think of One (take two)
- B3Think of One (take one)
About the album
- Artist
- Thelonious Monk
- Label
- Prestige
- Released
- 1956
- Type
- Album
- Format
- 12" Vinyl
- Country
- US
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