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Thelonious In Action

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Thelonious Monk

 
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    Thelonious Sphere Monk, a pianist as eccentric and marvelous as his name, was at his peak in the summer of 1958, when he recorded these sessions at the Five Spot with drummer Roy Haynes, bassist Ahmed Abdul-Malik and — replacing John Coltrane — Johnny Griffin on tenor sax. It's a different vibe from the Coltrane dates of the year before — less rapturous, more soulful — but spectacular all the same. By this time, Monk had fashioned his songbook of knotty originals — "Light Blue," "Blue Monk," "Epistrophy," "Rhythm-a-ning" — and this quintet rips through them with high-spirited aplomb.

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