YEAH

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Stepping momentarily away from his defining, long-term role as Thelonious Monk's principal tenor saxophonist, Charlie Rouse leads a robust quartet session on 'YEAH'. The album allows Rouse to showcase his distinctly warm, somewhat idiosyncratic phrasing over more conventional hard bop and ballad structures. It reveals his deeply melodic sensibilities outside the demanding, angular framework of Monk's compositions.