Randy Weston - Portraits Of Thelonious Monk - Well You Needn't album flac

Songs in album Randy Weston - Portraits Of Thelonious Monk (1990).

Teddy McRae, Thelonious Monk. 4. I Mean You. Coleman Hawkins, Thelonious Monk.

Jazz pianist Thelonious Monk's first sessions as a bandleader were recorded between 1947 and 1952, and released on Blue Note records as a series of 78 RPM singles. These singles were then compiled in later years-with additional performances from the sessions-into long-playing album formats. As Monk's reputation and fame grew, the sessions were recompiled again and again into more complete configurations. This article details various releases of these sessions.

1 Well You Needn’t 2 Misterioso 3 Ruby My Dear 4 I Mean You 5 Functional 6 Off Minor, Thelonious. Randy Weston (piano) Jamil Nasser (bass) Idris Muhammad (drums) Eric Asante (percussion).

Randy Weston’s new album, Portraits of Thelonious Monk, recorded last year in Paris, is a deeply personal tribute to Monk. Weston has always favored bassists with a huge ringing sound and drummers who have a powerful backbeat, but this time he adds an African percussionist, underscoring a charged rhythmic approach to the material. It’s as though he dissected the familiar Monk themes down to their metric skeletons - on Well You Needn’t, he doesn’t even state the melody until the end of the performance.

Well, You Needn't" is a jazz standard composed by Thelonious Monk in 1944. According to Robin Kelley in his biography Thelonious Monk: the Life and Times of an American Original, the title was inspired by a protégé of Monk's, the jazz singer Charlie Beamon: Monk wrote a song and told Beamon he was going to name it after him, to which Beamon apparently replied "Well, you need not". Like another Monk standard, "Epistrophy", the song is notable for a chord sequence in which the root note moves by semitones. This is how Miles Davis recorded the tune on his album Steamin' with The Miles Davis Quintet, and the wide proliferation of the Real Book makes this progression the de facto standard for the bridge. 1989: Portraits of Thelonious Monk: Well You Needn't by Randy Weston. 2005: Tricycles by Larry Coryell.