Monk Suite: Kronos Quartet Plays Music of Thelonious Monk

Monk Suite: Kronos Quartet Plays Music of Thelonious Monk
Studio album by Kronos Quartet
Released 1985 (1985)
Genre contemporary classical, jazz
Label Landmark (#1505)
Kronos Quartet chronology
In Formation
(1982)
Monk Suite: Kronos Quartet Plays Music of Thelonious Monk
(1985)
Terry Riley: Cadenza on the Night Plain (1985)

Monk Suite: Kronos Quartet Plays Music of Thelonious Monk is a studio album by the Kronos Quartet. The album contains compositions by Thelonious Monk,[1] played by the quartet with Ron Carter (bass improvisation).[2] It was re-released in 2005 as CD, on Savoy, and re-issued with Music of Bill Evans on 2CD as 32 Jazz: The Complete Landmark Sessions.[3]

Track listing

All music composed by Thelonious Monk except as noted.

No. TitleWriter(s) Length
1. "Well You Needn't"    4:59
2. "Rhythm-A-Ning"    3:04
3. "Crepuscule with Nellie"    2:39
4. "Off Minor/Epistrophy"    8:11
5. "'Round Midnight"    4:34
6. "Misterioso"    4:00
7. "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)"  Duke Ellington, Irving Mills 4:03
8. "Black and Tan Fantasy"  Ellington, Bubber Miley 3:43
9. "Brilliant Corners"    5:07

See also

References

  1. Solis, Gabriel (2007). Monk's music: Thelonious Monk and Jazz History in the Making. U of California P. p. 202. ISBN 978-0-520-25201-1.
  2. Bogdanov, Vladimir; Chris Woodstra; Stephen Thomas Erlewine (2002). "Kronos Quartet". All Music Guide to Jazz: The Definitive Guide to Jazz Music. Backbeat. p. 300. ISBN 978-0-87930-717-2. Retrieved 2009-01-28.
  3. Tracy, Steven Carl (1999). Write me a few of your lines: a blues reader. U of Massachusetts P. p. 568. ISBN 978-1-55849-206-6.
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