Live at the It Club

by Thelonious Monk

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Recorded at a Los Angeles venue in 1964 but unreleased for decades, this set captures the pianist's classic quartet featuring Charlie Rouse delivering robust, highly rhythmic interpretations. The performances highlight Monk's famously angular playing style and the deep, swinging chemistry of his long-standing rhythm section.

Genres

  • Hard Bop

Tracklist

  1. Blue Monk
  2. Well You Needn't
  3. 'Round Midnight
  4. Rhythm-a-ning
  5. Blues Five Spot (Five Spot Blues)
  6. Bemsha Swing
  7. Straight, No Chaser
  8. Nutty
  9. Evidence
  10. Misterioso
  11. Gallop's Gallop
  12. Ba-Blue Bolivar Ba-Lues-Are