Big Band and Quartet in Concert. Monk in Tokyo. Two Hours with Thelonious Monk, Vol. Monterey Jazz Festival ' Live in Paris, Vol. Explore Records. Live at the It Club. Live at the Jazz Workshop. It's Monk's Time. Live in Paris at the Alhambra Olympia 23 May Disc Trema. Misterioso [Columbia]. Solo Monk. Live in Switzerland Jazz Helvet. On Tour in Europe. Charly Records. Live in Paris Nonet: Live! Le Jazz. Straight, No Chaser. Monk's Blues. The Prophet.
Get Back Records. Hidden Paths. Cube Metier. Night Over. Cherry [Sakura]. Intakt Records. Blue Monk. Soon after his first recording session, Monk married Nellie Smith. The couple had two children. Not until the release of Brilliant Corners in did Monk have an album considered commercially successful.
In , Thelonious Monk was the subject of a Time Magazine cover story which led to several international tours. I felt I learned from him in every way—through the senses, theoretically, technically. Thelonious Monk quit performing in the late s and spent the rest of his life in seclusion.
He died on February 17, Monk's first known recording was made in , when he worked as a member of Coleman Hawkins's quartet. Monk didn't record under his own name, however, until , when he played as the leader of a sextet session for Blue Note. Monk made a total of five Blue Note recordings between and , including "Criss Cross" and "Evidence. As Monk saw it, "The piano ain't got no wrong notes!
In , Monk married Nellie Smith, his longtime sweetheart. They later had two children, whom they named after Monk's parents, Thelonious and Barbara. Because Monk's work continued to be largely overlooked by jazz fans at large, Prestige sold his contract to Riverside Records in There, he attempted to make his first two recordings more widely accessible, but this effort was poorly received by critics.
Not content to pander ineffectively to a nonexistent audience, Monk turned a page with his album, Brilliant Corners , which is usually considered to be his first true masterpiece. The album's title track made a splash with its innovative, technically demanding, and extremely complex sound, which had to be edited together from many separate takes. With the release of two more Riverside masterworks, Thelonious Himself and Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane, Monk finally received the acclaim he deserved.
Enjoying huge success, they went on to tour the United States and even make some appearances in Europe. By , Monk was so popular that he was given a contract with Columbia Records, a decidedly more mainstream label than Riverside. In , Monk became one of four jazz musicians ever to grace the cover of Time Magazine. The years that followed included several overseas tours, but by the early s, Monk was ready to retire from the limelight; save for his recordings at Black Lion Records and the occasional appearance at the Lincoln Center or Carnegie Hall, Monk spent his final years living quietly in seclusion.
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