TSMonk - Misterioso

Thelonious Sphere Monk - Misterioso

Blue Note Records

recorded:
April 14, 1957

Sonny Rollins - tenor sax
J.J.Johnson - trombone
Thelonious Monk - piano (comping Rollins)
Horace Silver - piano (comping Johnson)
Paul Chambers - bass
Art Blakey - drums

Category:

Music

Tags:

• jazz
• bebop
• hardbop
• be
• hard
• bop
• saxophone
• ts
• tmonk
• walter
• theodore

[IgorTerrible]

@confoozled3737 I am not here to trash Monk, he was a genius and I have played this tune many times with big bands- it's not one of his best compositions, it's just a series of accending and decending sixths over a double time12 bar (really a 24 bar) blues sequence with almost no variation, unlike 'Blue Monk' which contrasts the accending chromatic line with a 'lick' (ingeniously displaced at the end 'A La Monk'). Although it's a nice groove once the solos begin.

[confoozled3737]

@IgorTerrible Are you not familiar with many blues heads?

[mandryitera]

Since the chords are indicated, the chart can only be for one of two instruments. Piano, the instrument of the composer or guitar. At least that's my guess. I have the first three volumes of "Real BooK" series, all for piano and guitar. I have never seen the books in alternative keys for saxes etc., and do not know if the chords are indicated for "The Lydian Concept of Tonal Gravity".

[AllBobsAllTheTime]

@IgorTerrible This is The Blues!!!

[blueroan4]

what instrument is that chart ^^^ for?

[IgorTerrible]

Love Monk, hate this tune- it's like a practice exercise.

[mountaintop1234]

DDDDDDOOOOOOONNNNNNGGGGGGG!!!!­!!!!

[orbison52]

QUE MARAVILLA, ARMONICAMENTE. una BELLEZA.

[postatility]

It is Buhaina(Mr.Blakey)who really ties everything together and makes this session work as well as it does!

[JimBozeman1956]

Is this Sonny Rollins on sax on this recording?