Monk's Dream (Thelonious Monk album)
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| Studio album by The Thelonious Monk Quartet | ||||
| Released | 1963 | |||
| Recorded | Oct. 31, Nov. 1, 2 & 6, 1962 Columbia 30th Street Studio, NY |
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| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 47:02 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | Teo Macero | |||
| The Thelonious Monk Quartet chronology | ||||
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| Down Beat |  |
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| The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide |  |
Monk's Dream is the first album jazz musician Thelonious Monk released on Columbia Records. It was recorded in 1962 and issued the following year.
"Bye-Ya" and "Bolivar Blues" were recorded on October 31, 1962; "Body and Soul" and "Bright Mississippi" on November 1; "Sweet and Lovely", "Just a Gigolo" and "Monk's Dream" on November 2; and "Five Spot Blues" on November 6.
"Bright Mississippi" is the only track on the album that Monk had not previously recorded. "Bolivar Blues" was originally titled "Ba-lue Bolivar Ba-lues-are", and had been on Monk's 1957 Riverside album, Brilliant Corners. "Five Spot Blues" was originally called "Blues Five Spot" and had first appeared on the album Misterioso, which was recorded in concert at the Five Spot Cafe in New York in 1958 and released by Riverside. "Monk's Dream", "Bye-Ya", and "Sweet and Lovely" had also been previously recorded by Monk for Prestige Records at a session ten years earlier.
Jazz critic Pete Welding wrote in his five-star review that appeared in the March 14, 1963 issue of Down Beat magazine (that) "This important album, Monk's first after a long absence from the recording studio, is a stunning reaffirmation of his powers as a performer and composer."
All compositions by Thelonious Monk except as indicated.
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