Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners

Moving on with my Christmas uploads, the next selection I'm uploading, is Thelonious Monk's "Brilliant Corners", one of my favorite albums from him (next to Straight, No Chaser). Unfortunately, I have to skip "Ba-lue Bolivar Ba-Lues-Are", because of it's length, but thankfully, the rest of the album will fit. Enjoy and have a merry Christmas!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Jazz
• Thelonious
• Monk
• Piano
• Brilliant
• Corners
• Paul
• Chambers
• Oscar
• Pettiford Bass
• Ernie
• Henry
• Alto
• Saxophone
• Max
• Roach
• Drums
• Sonny
• Rollins
• Tenor
• Sax
• Clark
• Terry
• Trumpet

[WindyCityJazz]

@beeshor1 Yeah, it was 25 takes. Finally, Orrin Keepnews was able to knit together a complete take out of them. A lot of Monk's compositions were so complex. Monk was so unique. Nobody sounds like him. He's just one of a kind. There will never be another Monk.

[whateveritsnoyes]

Ernie Henry's solo from 2:24 to 2:50 is fantastic, especially the final ten seconds of it.

[menelith1]

Great piece.  Monk at his best.

[Boregon1]

Monk just had such a unique, bebop type sound. Comparing him to others of the time, like Bud Powell, just doesn't give him credit. His compostions are recorded second most in the jazz world, and he only wrote 70. Duke Ellington wrote hundreds, if not thousands, and made first, but its a close one. To think monk had so much skill, and died so early...

[BRazor92]

@whateveritsnoyes haha, it's fine. We get the gist of it though, that was a great solo.

[whateveritsnoyes]

@BRazor92 Haha thanks for responding. I realized months back that it is indeed Sonny. Forgot to delete that comment.

[BRazor92]

@whateveritsnoyes But that was Sonny Rollins at 2:24... 4:00 is Ernie's Solo

[joaon99]

@rillloudmother I'm used to it, there has never been a fight I didn't lose.

[rillloudmother]

@joaon99 Really, if there were a fight, you already lost bringing your granddaddy into it.

[joaon99]

@rillloudmother @atombomb31458

Let's not start a fight in the comments for such a lovely and brilliant tune.

[wastemgmt07]

thank you.....

[rillloudmother]

@atombomb31458 dude, who cares what your grandpa did, for real. Most sophisticated tunes modulate through several keys, your comment about monk's music employing the most common flat keys is a super DUH. Even Giant Steps has a Eb area in it, and that tune is mostly in sharp keys Look through the real book and see how many tunes are based on the flat keys then come back and say duh, lulz.