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Thelonious monk piano solo reflections aka portrait of an ermite 1954 from the album thelonious monk piano solo vogue records. Thelonious monk round midnight sheet music for piano. I am a big fan of the jazz piano solos series containing arrangements by brent edstrom. Thelonious monk easy piano solos paperback december 1, 1998 by ronnie mathews author 4. Thelonious monk collection by thelonious monk sheet music for. The music of thelonious monk is among the most requested of any jazz composer, but accurate lead sheets and sources have never been widely available until now. You write about thelonious monk getting up from the piano and dancing around in circles on stage, falling asleep at the keyboard, sporting strange hats. In a new biography, thelonious monk minus the myth. Smoke gets in your eyes played by thelonious monk sheet music. Valuable primarily as a historical resource, this performance is entertaining and engaging, but it doesnt compare well against later solo piano performances. I bought this only to discover that it is a repackaging of the thelonious monk intermediate piano solos, first published by hal leonard in 2000, arranged by ronnie matthews, repackaged presumably for the centennial of monk s birthday.
Thelonious monk sheet music and music books at sheet music plus. Combine bebop, blues and stride piano on this thelonious monk blues. Oct 06, 2017 combine bebop, blues and stride piano on this thelonious monk blues. Our new desktop experience was built to be your music destination. Anyway this book is helping me get closer to playing these tunes and that makes me happy even if.
Piano solo is a 1954 album by jazz pianist and composer thelonious monk, recorded in paris, france on june 4, 1954, originally for a radio broadcast the original album was released on the french disques vogue label as a 10 lp. Thelonious monk collection piano transcriptions hal leonard. Thelonious monk is one of the greatest jazz musicians of all time and one of first creators of modern jazz and bebop. Learn the 5 essential left hand techniques with my free ebook. His angular melodies and dissonant harmonies shook the jazz world to its foundations, ushering in the birth of bebop and establishing monk as one of americas greatest composers. Thelonious monk 19171982 was one of jazzs greatest and most enigmatic figures. Piano transcriptions and millions of other books are available for amazon kindle. Jul 16, 2019 thelonious monk is one of the greatest jazz musicians of all time. While round midnight, is here, so is off minor, well you neednt, and his gorgeous reading of smoke gets in your eyes. The thelonious monk fake book is a great if exhaustive resource for detailed lead sheets of monk s compositions.
This folio has 70 of the master composerpianists most familiar pieces, as well as a number of obscure and unrecorded tunes, in easytoread versions. Monk prestige prlp 7053 is a 1956 compilation album by jazz pianist and composer thelonious monk, featuring material recorded from 1953 to 1954 for the prestige label and performed by monk with two quintets, one featuring julius watkins, sonny rollins, percy heath, and willie jones and one featuring ray copeland, frank foster, curly russell, and art blakey. Now the intermediatelevel pianist can play and study the music of this jazz giant this collection includes 14 tunes monk made great, arranged by t. Sep 01, 2017 i am a big fan of the jazz piano solos series containing arrangements by brent edstrom. For much of his career, monk played with small groups at miltons playhouse. He started piano lessons as a kid and by age, he had won the weekly amateur night contest at the apollo theater so many times that he was no longer allowed to compete. It was originally released in 1954 as the fourth of five 10 albums by monk for prestige prlp 189. Musicnotes features the worlds largest online digital sheet music catalogue with over 300,000 arrangements available to print and play instantly. Versions of the tune appear on art blakeys jazz messengers with thelonious monk, and monk s blues. This book should be regarded as a treatise on jazz composition. Thelonious monk fake book by thelonious monk fake book. Looking at the life and times of thelonious monk robin d. Shop and buy thelonious monk collection sheet music.
As a composer, pianist, and bandleader, monk both extended the piano tradition known as harlem stride and was at the center of modern jazzs creation during the 1940s, setting the stage for the experimentalism of the 1960s and 70s. Thelonious monk intermediate piano solos songbook and millions of other books are available for amazon kindle. Sep 16, 2017 thelonious monk, bernie hanighen, cootie williams licensed to youtube by sme on behalf of columbia. In the 40s he started making recordings, and in the 50s he came out with two of his most popular albums, brilliant corners and thelonious monk with john coltrane. Piano transcriptions artist transcriptions by monk, thelonious isbn. Kelley spent 14 years on a new book, which some are calling the definitive work on a jazz legend.
His approach to the keyboard was a radical departure from what had gone before, and he unquestionably qualifies as one of the great jazz innovators, though fewer people were prepared to adopt the monk vocabulary than learned and repeated charlie parkers virtuoso licks. Choose from thelonious monk sheet music for such popular songs as round midnight, all the things. Piano transcriptions artist transcriptions monk, thelonious on. Jun 16, 2010 monk performing his tune round midnight.
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Thelonious monk s most popular book is thelonious monk plays standards volume 2. Thelonious monk s piano solo vogue europe solo recordings in paris 1954. Dec 29, 2009 in a new biography, thelonious monk minus the myth robin d. During one of her many visits in 1959 or 60, when she was about twelve years old, teeny noticed a book of compositions by chopin perched on her uncles rented steinway baby grand piano. Popular notions about monk tend to emphasize his lack of formal training, his bizarre behavior and unique fashion sense. This cd is a reissue of thelonious monk s first solo piano performance, issued as solo on vogue originally. Thelonious monk has 21 books on goodreads with 53 ratings. A brilliant composer and a criminally underrated pianist whose sense of rhythm, space, and harmony made him one of the founders of modern jazz. Now the intermediatelevel pianist can play and study the music of this jazz giant.
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