Numbered Limited Edition - 3000 Copies! Thelonious Monk Quartet's Monk's Dream on Hybrid SACD from Mobile Fidelity! Mastered from the Original Master Tapes! This item not eligible for any further discount offers! Throughout, Monk's Dream conveys an exhilarating freedom that mirrors the improvisational twists, dissonant techniques, and melodic turns Monk embraced not only in the studio (and on the stage) but in everyday life. Format: Mobile Fidelity Ultradisc UHR™ Numbered, Limited Edition Hybrid Stereo SACD
180 Gram Vinyl! Classic! Stellar Action Between Monk & Charlie Rouse! Mature Flavor! It's the last album the talented pianist and composer recorded with his quartet consisting of Larry Gales on bass, Ben Riley on drums and his musical soul mate Charlie Rouse on tenor sax. Format: Music On Vinyl 180g Import LP
Highly Reviewed at HiFi+ - 10 out of 10 for Recording & Music!!! Michael Fremer Rated 9/10 Music, 9/10 Sonics! Heavy-Weight 180 Gram Audiophile All-Analog Pressing! Mastered by Kevin Gray & Pressed at RTI! This item not eligible for any further discount offers! The signature album by one of jazz's signature artists, Monk's Dream is the Columbia Records debut release featuring the Thelonious Monk Quartet: Monk (piano), Charlie Rouse (tenor sax), John Ore (bass), and Frankie Dunlop (drums). Format: Impex 180g LP
Lost 1963 Recording Released For The Very First Time! All Analogue Mono Vinyl LP! TAS Rated 4.5/5 Music, 5/5 Sonics in the December 2018 Issue of The Absolute Sound! A previously unreleased, precious lost treasure from Monk’s most critically acclaimed lineup: Charlie Rouse (sax), John Ore (double bass) and Frankie Dunlop (drums). Recorded live in Copenhagen in 1963 at the peak of Monk’s career, this music is modernist, bluesy, soulful, weird and swinging. Format: Gearbox Records Mono LP
TAS Super LP List! Special Merit: Informal Numbered Limited Edition 200g LP! Newly Discovered 1959 Studio Recording! Cut By Kevin Gray & Pressed At Quality Record Pressings! Includes A 4-Page Insert With Photos! This item not eligible for any further discount offers! Recorded for the 1960 Roger Vadim movie Les Liaisons Dangereuses, this album features Monk performing with Charlie Rouse, Barney Wilen, Sam Jones and Art Taylor. Format: Sam Records Numbered Limited Edition 200g LP
Numbered, Limited Edition 180g Vinyl! Limited To 3000 Numbered Copies! All-Analog Mastering by Kevin Gray! Pressed at RTI! This item not eligible for any further discount offers! This mid-period masterwork from jazz piano's most uncommon voice finds Monk and his quartet exploring every texture, tone and melodic turn of seven expansive tracks. This group was subtle, mature and confident, easily supporting Monk's more idiosyncratic side-tracks. Format: 2 Impex Numbered Limited Edition 180g LPs
TAS Super LP List! Special Merit: Informal Newly Discovered 1959 Studio Recording! Cut By Kevin Gray & Pressed At Quality Record Pressings! Includes A 4-Page Insert With Photos! Recorded for the 1960 Roger Vadim movie Les Liaisons Dangereuses, this album features Monk performing with Charlie Rouse, Barney Wilen, Sam Jones and Art Taylor. Format: Sam Records 200g LP
Limited Edition 180g Transparent Purple Vinyl LP! 1962 album features songs such as "Monk's Dream", "Body And Soul", "Just A Gigolo" and many more. Jazz scholars and enthusiasts alike heralded this combo as the best Monk had been involved with for several years. The tight – almost telepathic – dimensions that these four shared has rarely been equaled in any genre. Includes the original 1952 trio version of "Monk's Dream" as a bonus track. Format: Waxtime In Color Limited Edition Direct Metal Master 180g Import Transparent Purple Vinyl LP
Limited Edition 10" Vinyl 5LP Box Set! Includes A Booklet WIth Vintage Photos & New Liner Notes! Featuring Art Blakey, Frank Foster, Percy Heath, Max Roach, Sonny Rollins & More! Celebrating Thelonious Monk on the centennial of his birth, this limited-edition, 5-LP box set features all of the 10" LPs which the innovative pianist recorded for Prestige Records, between 1952-1954. Format: Craft Recordings Verve 10" Vinyl 5LP Box Set
The Absolute Sound Top Ten Vinyl Reissue of 2016!Read The Full Review Here! 180g High Quality Vinyl! Monk is joined by some of his closest collaborators Phil Woods, Steve Lacy, and Thad Jones along with Charlie Rouse, Frank Dunlop and more for this 1963 performance at Philharmonic Hall in New York. Format: Speakers Corner Columbia 180g LP
10" Vinyl! Newly Remastered for Blue Note 75th Anniversary Vinyl! Volume two of the two-volume Genius of Modern Music exemplifies Thelonious Monk as a full band leader and consists almost entirely of original compositions. Sidemen include trumpeter Kenny Dorham, bassist Al McKibbon, saxophonist Sahib Shihab as well as Art Blakey and Max Roach. Format: Universal Blue Note 10" Vinyl
Michael Fremer Rated 8/10 Music, 8/10 Sonics! 180 Gram Virgin Vinyl! For All Jazz Fans! The High Priest of Be-Bop! With its three compositions by Thelonious Monk, one might call this LP from 1964 “3 Standards and 3 Monks”. Format: Speakers Corner/Columbia 180g LP
Vinyl Reissue Series Commemorates 65th Anniversary of Prestige Records and 90th Birthday of Legendary Engineer Rudy Van Gelder! This 1954 release was recorded by Monk with two different quintets. The first set included Ray Copeland, Frank Foster, Curly Russell, and Art Blakey. The second session featured Julius Watkins, Sonny Rollins, Percy Heath, and Willie Jones. Format: OJC Fantasy LP
180g Vinyl Mastered From Original Analog Tapes! Pressed at Pallas and Mastered by Bernie Grundman! This release has long been considered Thelonious Monk's acknowledgement to the flourishing youth-oriented subculture from whence the collection takes its name. Underground became Monk's penultimate studio album, as well as the final release to feature the '60s quartet: Charlie Rouse, Ben Riley, and Larry Gales. Format: ORG Music 180g LP
This item not eligible for any further discount offers! This Single-Layer SHM-SACD can only be played on a Super Audio CD Player! The complex title track for this Grammy Hall of Fame inductee required over twelve takes in the studio and is considered one of his most difficult compositions. Format: Universal/Riverside UK Japanese Import Single Layer SHM SACD
Limited Edition - 1000 Copies In U.S.! 45rpm 7" Vinyl Single! Monk has a lightness of touch in this recording that isn't often heard. Strong themes are interspersed with florid lines and embellishments. The result is an awe-inspiring take that's dripping with cool. Format: Gearbox Records 45rpm 7" Vinyl
10" Vinyl! Newly Remastered for Blue Note 75th Anniversary Vinyl! Volume one of Genius of Modern Music features the first sessions Thelonious Monk recorded as a leader in 1947. These sessions include some of the earliest Monk recordings that would become standards including “Round About Midnight” which is now one of the most popular jazz compositions ever. Format: Universal Blue Note 10" Vinyl
180g Audiophile Vinyl! Specially Re-Mastered From Original Tapes! What makes Underground special is that unlike his other Columbia recordings, four out of the seven songs were newly composed and recorded. Format: Music On Vinyl 180g Import LP
High Quality Pure Analogue 180g Virgin Vinyl LP! Audiophile Remastering! Monk is joined by Charlie Rouse, Butch Warren and Frankie Dunlop for this live performance in Tokyo, Japan in 1963. Format: Speakers Corner Sony 180g 2LP
