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File under: Post Bop50s

Thelonious Monk

Thelonious Monk Quartet: Live Five Spot 1958, Revisited

Label: ezz-thetics

Format: CD

Genre: Jazz

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Temporary Super Offer! Johnny Griffin came to Thelonius Monk with a reputation as a speed demon – double-timing the tempo was his default mechanism, elaborating melodies with a mixture of mellow swing and complex bop phrasing. Their contrasting nature – Griffin’s fluid extravagance and Monk’s percussive dissections – intensified by Roy Haynes’ forceful divisions of the beat, generate a tension unlike any of Monk’s subsequent groups' – Art Lange

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File under: Post Bop50s
Cat. number: ezz-thetics 1147
Year: 2022