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Genius of Modern Music

The Blue Note sessions, compiled in 1951 and 1956, with the first Monk recording of "'Round Midnight".
Thelonious Monk, 1951

Two 12-inch LPs in 1956 recompiled two earlier 10-inch LPs from 1951 and 1952, from sessions at WOR Studios on October 15, October 24 and November 21, 1947, July 23, 1951 and May 30, 1952, with a session at Apex Studios on July 2, 1948. Alfred Lion produced, Doug Hawkins engineered, Ira Gitler wrote the liner notes and Michael Cuscuna produced the reissue. Volume One begins with "'Round About Midnight", recorded on November 21, 1947 with George Taitt on trumpet, Sahib Shihab on alto, Bob Paige on bass and Art Blakey on drums. AllMusic and Larkin's Encyclopedia of Popular Music gave both volumes five stars. We cannot say whether our upload is this version.

Track listing

  1. 'Round Midnight

More from Thelonious Monk

Thelonious Monk Plays (1954), Thelonious Monk Plays The Music Of Duke Ellington (1955), The Unique Thelonious Monk (1956), Thelonious Himself (1957), Thelonious Alone In San Francisco (1959), In Italy (1963), Criss-Cross (1963), It's Monk's Time (1964), Something In Blue (1972), Thelonious Monk (1973), Nice Work In London (1977), Thelonious Monk 1963 In Japan (1983), More Genius Of Thelonious Monk (1985), Evidence (1987), Straight No Chaser (Music From The Motion Picture) (1989), In Paris (1991), At Newport 1963 & 1965 (2002), Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 (2017), Mønk (2018), Palo Alto (2020), Palais Des Beaux-Arts 1963 (2020), At Newport 1963 (2020), Bremen 1965 (2025)

Sources

  1. Genius of Modern Music, Wikipedia
  2. Thelonious Monk discography, jazzdisco.org