Genius of Modern Music
by Thelonious Monk
- Type: Compilation
- Released: 1952
- Label: Blue Note
- Country: United States
- Length: 1:03:41
- Community rating: 5/5 from 5 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
The 'Genius of Modern Music' compilations document Thelonious Monk's seminal first sessions as a bandleader for Blue Note Records between 1947 and 1952. These recordings introduced his fully-formed, idiosyncratic style, characterized by angular melodies, dissonant harmonies, and a percussive piano attack that departed from typical bebop conventions. Featuring various small-group configurations with musicians like Art Blakey and Milt Jackson, the sessions yielded the earliest recordings of enduring jazz standards such as ''Round Midnight', 'Ruby, My Dear', and 'Well, You Needn't', establishing Monk as one of modern jazz's most important and singular composers.
Genres
Descriptors: piano, classic, compilation, dissonant, eccentric
Tracklist
- Humph (2:55)
- Evonce (3:05)
- Suburban Eyes (3:02)
- Thelonious (3:02)
- Evonce (3:04)
- Suburban Eyes (2:59)
- Nice Work If You Can Get It (3:02)
- Ruby, My Dear (3:10)
- Well You Needn't (3:00)
- April In Paris (3:22)
- Off Minor (3:03)
- Introspection (3:13)
- Nice Work If You Can Get It (3:04)
- Ruby My Dear (3:07)
- Well You Needn't (2:57)
- April In Paris (2:43)
- In Walked Bud (2:58)
- Monk's Mood (3:10)
- Who Knows? (2:45)
- 'Round Midnight (3:14)
- Who Knows? (2:46)
Credits
- Thelonious Monk - piano
- Idrees Sulieman - trumpet
- Danny Quebec West - alto saxophone
- Billy Smith - tenor saxophone
- Gene Ramey - bass
- Art Blakey - drums
- George Taitt - trumpet
- Sahib Shihab - alto saxophone
- Bob Paige - bass
- Milt Jackson - vibraphone
- John Simmons - bass
- Shadow Wilson - drums
- Al McKibbon - bass
- Alfred Lion - producer
- Doug Hawkins - engineer
- Ira Gitler - liner notes