Round Midnight [Extra tracks, Import]

Thelonious Monk | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 20, 2008)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Import
• Label: Definitive Spain
• ASIN: B0007GFFU2
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #251,112 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Humph

2. Evonce

3. Suburban Eyes

4. Thelonious

5. Nice Work If You Can Get It

6. Ruby My Dear

7. Well You Needn't

8. April In Paris

9. Off Minor

10. Introspection

11. In Walked Bud

12. Monk's Mood

13. Who Knows

14. 'round Midnight

15. All The Things You Are

16. I Should Care

17. Evidence

18. Misterioso

19. Epistrophy

20. I Mean You

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

All his legendary recordings made for the mythical Blue Note label includes the original versions of his classic compositions - 'Thelonious', 'Ruby My Dear', 'Well You Needn't' and many others. 20-bit remastered reissue from Definitive Records includes 4 bonus tracks 'Flyin' Hawk', 'Driftin' On The Reed', 'On The Bean' and 'Recollections'. Also new cover sleeve, artwork and photographs. Blue Note. 2005.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Who's Afraid of George Taitt?, June 28, 2006

By 

Bill Wood "The Jazz Guy" (Vashon Island, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Round Midnight (Audio CD)

If you think you know Monk and you've never heard his early Blue Note recordings, then you don't really know Monk. Over the length of his career, Monk never really changed his approach to music making, so listening to these tracks, recorded for Blue Note when he was thirty, is like drinking city water at the spring; it's that sharp, and that clear and that new. You can hear the revolution as it happened. And don't be afraid of some of the strange names Monk recorded with in those early days - people like George Taitt (trumpet) and Danny Quebec West (alto). They were all young and at the starting gate together. Some guys dropped out of the race pretty quick, but they were all there at the beginning and they do just fine. Don't blow a fortune on the boxed set. This new CD from Definitive does the job in exemplary fashion at sixteen bucks. The tracks with Coleman Hawkins don't do much except point up the fact that Monk really wasn't much of a sideman. He was just....Monk.