Thelonious Monk: Monk's Dream - MOVLP842

Monk's Dream (Clear Vinyl)

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Format Details: Clear Vinyl

Release Date: 19 June 2012

Label: Waxtime

Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 8436542012515

Genres: Jazz Modern Postbebop

Release Date: 10 July 2020

Label: Groove Replica

Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units: 2

Barcode: 8436569194898

Genres: Jazz Modern Postbebop

Release Date: 14 April 2014

Label: Music On Vinyl

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 8718469533367

Genres: Jazz Modern Postbebop

Release Date: 27 November 2026

Label: Waxtime Clear Vinyl

Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 8435723702450

Genres: Jazz Modern Postbebop

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GROOVE REPLICA – a new series of classic albums on 180gram vinyl with accompanying CD

THELONIOUS MONK QUARTET / MONK'S DREAM (vinyl)

CD version contains the complete album Monk's Dream + 6 bonus tracks from the album 'Sunday at the Village Vanguard'. Deluxe digipak presentation and updated liner notes

Personnel:
THELONIOUS MONK, piano; CHARLIE ROUSE, tenor sax; JOHN ORE, bass;
FRANKIE DUNLOP, drums
Recorded in New York 1963 and produced by TEO MACERO.

CD bonus tracks (Sunday at the Village Vanguard): Thelonious Monk (p), Gary Mapp (b), Art Blakey (d). Recorded New York, October 15, 1952. Produced by Bob Weinstock.
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Monk's Dream is the first album jazz musician Thelonious Monk released on Columbia Records. It was recorded in 4 days in autumn 1962 and issued a year later. The Thelonious Monk Quartet consisted of Monk (piano), Charlie Rouse (tenor sax), John Ore (bass), and Frankie Dunlop (drums). Jazz scholars and enthusiasts alike also heralded this combo as the best Monk had been involved with for several years. Although he would perform and record supported by various other musicians, the tight dimensions that these four shared has rarely been equaled in any genre.On tracks such as "Five Spot Blues" and "Bolivar Blues," Rouse and Dunlop demonstrate their uncanny abilities by squeezing in well-placed instrumental fills, while never getting hit by the unpredictable rhythmic frisbees being tossed about by Monk. Augmenting the six quartet recordings are two solo sides: "Just a Gigolo" and "Body and Soul." Most notable about Monk's solo work is how much he retained the same extreme level of intuition throughout the nearly two decades that separate these recordings from his initial renderings in the late '40s.Monk's Dream is available on 180 gram audiophile vinyl.

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The complete album + 2 bonus tracks - limited edition pressing on 180g crystal clear vinyl.
Monk's Dream was the first album Thelonious Monk released on Columbia Records following his departure from Riverside Records. Although he had previously recorded all of the album's compositions in various settings, with the exception of "Bright Mississippi", the remarkable cohesion of the quartet - featuring Charlie Rouse, John Ore and Frankie Dunlop - brought them together into a masterful and unified statement. The result was a critically acclaimed album that earned widespread praise upon its release and continues to be celebrated as one of Monk's finest achievements. It also became the best-selling album of his career.
"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
Includes the bonus tracks "Monk's Dream [original version) and "Just A Gigolo" [1954 solo piano version).
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