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Criss-Cross (Legacy) (Remaster) (CD)

By: Thelonious Monk (Artist)

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Thelonious Monk Artist Snapshot:

Thelonious Monk, underappreciated at the beginning of his career in the 1940s, was eventually recognized as one of the most brilliant figures in modern jazz, with a piano and compositional style that began in a classic stride and then veered off, gloriously, into the stratosphere. In contrast to the more athletic exploits of many beboppers, Monk's idiosyncratic playing was filled with stark contrasts of rhythm, space, and harmony, as if he were carefully unveiling some ancient wisdom. His death in 1982 left a void in jazz that could never be filled. However, Monk's songs live on in his remarkable recordings, and his influence is continually present in the work of hundreds of contemporary musicians.

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DISC 1 for Criss-Cross (Legacy) (Remaster) (CD) Album By Thelonious Monk (Artist)
1   Hackensack
2   Tea For Two
3   Criss Cross
4   Eronel
5   Rhythm-A-Ning
6   Don't Blame Me
7   Think Of One
8   Crepuscule With Nellie
9   Pannonica - (take 2)
10   Coming On The Hudson - (take 3, bonus track)
11   Tea For Two - (previously unreleased, take 9, bonus track)
12   Eronel - (previously unreleased, take 3, bonus track)
 

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Review

Q (9/93, p.101) - 3 Stars - Good - "...Surreal, deadpan, and one of the best....In every sense of the word, [Thelonious Monk] could play..."

Title Note

Personnel: Thelonious Monk (piano); Charles Rouse (tenor saxophone); John Ore (bass); Frankie Dunlop (drums).

Recorded in New York, New York between November 6, 1962 and March 29, 1963. Includes liner notes by John Swenson and Dick Katz.

This is part of the Columbia Jazz Masterpieces series.

CRISS-CROSS is the result of five sessions with the ever-present Charlie Rouse on tenor plus the rhythm compliment of drummer Frankie Dunlop and bassist John Ore. It was recorded at a time when Monk had actually become a popular beat icon; his iconoclast mug appeared on the cover of Time barely a year later.

While the majority of the material here is Monk's, his whimsical way with the two standards, "Tea For Two" and "Don't Blame Me," makes them special treats. The former is like an old suitcase bursting at the seams with zany new toys, the melody rife with Monk's truncated chromatic tails, his solo chunky with erratic-sounding bass comping, all of it amusingly bookended by the tongue-in-cheek straightness of Ore's intro and Monk's final toy-piano notes. By contrast, Rouse stays true to the compartmentalized quality of the head on "Criss-Cross," blowing short, dense strands that sound like the flight path of a beatnik butterfly as Dunlop responds sympathetically, all the while maintaining a solidly swinging base. CRISS-CROSS is choice Monk finery.

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