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2,020 Albums You Must Hear Before the World Ends
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When the great bandleader and jazz composer made this lovely, lightweight solo piano album in late 1964 and early 1965, he unexpectedly turned to standards more than to his own twisty, harmonically dense compositions (although there are a couple of those here, too, notably "Ruby, My Dear" and "Ask Me Now"). And not the usual jazz standards, either--more lounge-singer and Tin Pan Alley standards, like "These Foolish Things" and Bing Crosby's "I SurrENDer, Dear." In an unusually cheerful, relaxed mood, Monk plays with the sharp, tinkly attack, octave trills, and rock-solid left-hand rhythms
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Manufacturer: Sony
Release date: 21 April 1992
EAN: 0074644785425 UPC: 074644785425
Release date: 21 April 1992
EAN: 0074644785425 UPC: 074644785425
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2,020 Albums You Must Hear Before the World Ends (2020 music items)"SOLO MONK (1965) THELONIOUS MONK Review coming soon... FAV TRACKS: "Monk's Point"; "These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)"; "Dinah"; "North of the Sunset"; "Everything Happens to Me"; "I Hadn't Anyone Till You"; "I Should Care"; "Sweet and Lovely"; "I Surrender, Dear"; "I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)"; "Ask Me Now" "
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