aworks listening log :: thelonious monk

Cover of Brilliant Corners

1. Bemsha Swing
2. We See
3. Brilliant Corners
4. Crepuscule with Nellie
5. I Mean You
6. April in Paris
7. Well, You Needn't
8. Bright Mississippi
9. Criss-Cross
10. I Should Care
11. Work
12. All The Things You Are
13. 'Round Midnight
14. Star Spangled Banner
    

Listening to Monk (and some Mozart piano works) today. Bemsha Swing is my favorite melody right now...Anthony Brown's Asian American Orchestra plays Brilliant Corners...Crepuscule is a version by the son, T.S. Monk...Well, You Needn't is played by Kenny Barron but doesn't come close to the version with Monk and Coltrane...Bright Mississippi is played by Danilo Perez...Criss-Cross is a bizarre electric guitar cover version by Shockabilly...Work is on a Monk album by the Bay Area's Scott Amendola...Not a fan of 'Round Midnight...Just now, the local nine-year-old was looking at sheet music for the National Anthem and asked to hear a version; I went military traditional rather than use versions by Hendrix, Kiss, Ted Nugent, etc although I see there is a version by Duke Ellington as well...

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