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1. Apr 17,  · Thelonious Monk With Sonny Rollins, Ernie Henry And Clark Terry: Thelonious Monk With Sonny Rollins, Ernie Henry And Clark Terry - Brilliant Corners ‎ (CD, Album, RE, RM) Original Jazz Classics, Riverside Records: OJCCD, RLP US: Unknown: Sell This Version5/5(7).

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2. Re-issue on vinyl of the release by Thelonious Monk featuring Sonny Rollins, Ernie Henry, Oscar Pettiford, Max Roach, Clark Terry and Paul Chambers. Brilliant Corners is considered one of the best albums of his career. It received a 5 Star rating in Downbeat/5().

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3. Label: Riverside Records - RLP • Series: Riverside Contemporary Series • Format: Vinyl LP, Album, Mono Deep Groove • Country: US • Genre: Jazz • Style: Hard Bop Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners (, Deep Groove, Vinyl) | Discogs/5(48).

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4. 'Brilliant Corners' is a wonderful introduction to Monk. Jazz fans have always revered this album because it manages to combine outstanding playing with some inspiring but often eccentric tunes. Take 'Pannonica', a lovely ballad that plays host to a beautiful solo from saxophonist Rollins that precedes the delicate tinkling of Monk on the Celeste, altogether captivating/5().

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5. Thelonious Monk — Brilliant Corners (24 bit mastering Keepnews pressing) CD A brilliant title for this brilliant album from Thelonious Monk – a set that really has him coming back strongly in the second half of the 50s – with a new talent for arrangements that really goes past his previous work!Brand: Riverside (Label).

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6. Although Brilliant Corners is Thelonious Monk 's third disc for Riverside, it's the first on the label to weigh in with such heavy original material. Enthusiasts who become jaded to the idiosyncratic nature of Monk 's playing or his practically arithmetical chord progressions should occasionally revisit Brilliant Corners.

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7. Vinyl LP Featuring Bemsha Swing! As long ago as , Thelonious Monk had the respect of such contemporaries as Dizzy Gillespie. The music world at large regarded him with less enthusiasm. Many listeners found his playing and compositions bizarre.

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8. Jun 14,  · 2. Trio Thelonious Monk Trio (Prestige, ), here in a Rudy Van Gelder remaster edition, is the early Monk and also amongst the most eternal of his albums. The disc catches Monk playing with the same revolutionary zeal as characterized in his earlier masterpieces Genius Of Modern Music Volume 1 (Blue Note, ) and Volume 2 (Blue Note, ), and before the latter, more .

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