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Format Details:
Release Date: 10 November 2023
Label: Jazz Wax
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8435723700524
Genres: Jazz
Release Date: 10 October 2025
Label: 20th Century Masterworks
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8436563186653
Genres: Jazz
Description
Limited edition 180g audiophile pressing, high-definition premium vinyl for super fidelity - the complete LP + 2 bonus tracks. 'Monk's Dream' was the first album Thelonious Monk released on Columbia Records after his less than amicable departure from Riverside Records. Even though Monk had already recorded all the tracks on the album before (apart from Bright Mississippi), in a variety of settings, the powerful cohesion of the quartet this Columbia session produced a first-rate work worthy of the praises it received when released, and which it still receives today. It was Monk's best-selling album ever.
"This important album, Monk's first after a long absence from the recording studio, is a stunning reaffirmation of his power as a performer and composer. It is a brilliant and absorbing program of five Monk originals and three standards (and they might just as well be originals, so startling is their transformation at his hands). This is a beautiful album in every respect, completely stimulating in each second of its more than 47 minutes" - ***** Pete Welding, DownBeat
Description
180g blue coloured vinyl - the complete album + 2 bonus tracks, contains newly prepared liner notes by Penguin Guide to Jazz's writer Brian Morton.
This special edition presents the complete original LP Monk's Dream, which marks Thelonious Monk's first and best-selling LP for Columbia. It features the pianist/composer performing a combination of his own tunes and favourite standards, in the company of his classic quartet with Charlie Rouse, John Ore and Frankie Dunlop.
"This is a beautiful album in every respect, completely stimulating in each second of its more than 47 minutes." - ***** Pete Welding, DownBeat
Tracklisting
Tracklisting
Ella Fitzgerald
Nina Simone
Elvis Presley
Sonny Rollins
Oscar Peterson
Quincy Jones
Michel Legrand & Miles Davis
Johnny Hodges & Ben Webster
Thelonious Monk Quartet
Thelonious Monk Quartet
Thelonious Monk Quartet
