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Plays Duke Ellington by: Thelonious Monk List Price: $11.98 Price: $9.98 You Save: $2.00 (17%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0025218602426 Label: Ojc Manufacturer: Ojc Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Ojc Release Date: July 01, 1991 Studio: Ojc Sales Rank: 68339 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Album Description: Japanese only SHM-CD 24-bit remastered (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) pressing. Universal. 2008. Amazon.com: Like Money Jungle, the later collaboration between Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, and Max Roach, this collection of Ellingtonia showed how much a modernist the Duke really was. Without a doubt, Ellington is more clearly recalled as an architect of the Swing Era, but in Monk's hands, Ellington's tunes sound as pregnant with post-swing potential as anything in the bebop canal. Monk recorded these tunes at the request of Riverside Records founder Orrin Keepnews, who knew how idiosyncratic the pianist was, and rather than produce literal transcriptions, Monk went all over the map. Stride shades drop in amid the off-center melody statements. And shot throughout all the tunes is Monk's persistently interstitial approach, whereby he spots seams and creases in every phrase and then fills, comments on, and dances around them. As the first chapter, if you will, in the Complete Riverside box set, this makes a great platform for viewing Monk's ascent into unbridled genius. --Andrew Bartlett Customer Reviews
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 Rating: - Duke Ellington: "Thelonious Monk"Put Duke Ellington into it anyway, anywhere, anyhow, and you've got a winner! We loved the CD!! Rating: - Fiesta in Black and TanMonk's "Plays Duke Ellington" album is a well known beginning of a fruitfull attachment to Riverside label; the producer thought it would be wise to present his quirky star in a less strange setting, playing the music of another great artist; both pianist and composer. Frankly, I agree with people who say this is not true and complete Thelonious experience but, although I love and respect true and complete Thelonious, this is still great jazz. For, Ellington was a great composer and these performances are nice, modernist and moderately monkish readings of some of his greatest tunes. Highly recomendable both to Ellington fans and to modern jazz fans, althoug not all of the Monk fans will be thrilled. Rating: - Jump right in! The Jazz is fine.So you're hearing all the jazzers in the peripherals of your life raving on and on about these seemingly inaccessible figures (Miles, Trane, Monk). So you want to dip a tentative toe into the vast Ocean of Jazz. So start right here. "Plays Ellington'' is a great way to get acquainted with Monk. Listen for a bit and you'll find that there's nothing scary or "difficult' about his music. Quite simply, Monk is fun. Trust me, friend. Jump right in! The Jazz is fine. Kaz 6.29.04 Rating:  - monk minus monkThere has probably never been a musician as uncompromising as Thelonious Monk. He did it his way to an extent that Frank Sinatra could never have dreamed of. However, after some personal problems and a stint with the less than supportive Prestige records, Monk's career was at a low ebb, so when Riverside producer Orrin Keepnews suggested that he do a couple albums of other people's tunes as a kind of icebreaker, Monk agreed. Ellington was one of the most obvious of Monk's influences- ("Sounds like he's stealing some of my stuff" Ellington is supposed to have said on first hearing a Monk record)- and a set of Ellington' greatest hits would seem like a natural way to let Monk be Monk while playing a set of jazz standards. Read More: Rating: - The Monk plays the Duke.With this recording, Monk began his tenure at Riverside Records, which was very fruitful and lasted till around the early sixties when Columbia stole him away. The idea was that Monk was gaining popularity, but he was still a tough act to get used to for a lot of people because of the idiosyncratic compositions and piano style. So they suggested an album of someone else's material, to let those less familiar with Monk get used to his playing before confronting the genius of his writing. And who better than Duke to supply the material--Duke, whose playing, along with James P. Johnson and some of the other stride players, influenced Monk a great deal. The result is--surprise, surprise--an absolutely brilliant record. Ellington is reinvented, as ... Read More: |
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