Thelonious Monk Quartet - Misterioso - LP

When Thelonious Monk performed with his quartet at New York's Five Spot Café on August 7, 1958, he provided his record company Riverside with enough material for two terrific albums: "Thelonious In Action" and "Misterioso". For the repertoire of both records, Monk was able to draw from the rich fund of his own compositions. For "Misterioso" he recorded his own classics like "Nutty", "In Walked Bud" and the title track, but also a solo version of the old Louis Prima hit "Just A Gigolo". The only regret is that Monk did not keep this fantastically performing quartet with tenor saxophonist Johnny Griffin, bassist Ahmed Abdul-Malik and drummer Roy Haynes together longer. On the bonus track of this new CD edition, a twelve-minute medley of "Bye-Ya" and "Epistrophy", Art Blakey, who was also in splendid form, stood in for Roy Haynes.

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