{"id":10174,"date":"2018-09-03T13:15:48","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T20:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=10174"},"modified":"2018-09-03T17:42:45","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T00:42:45","slug":"monday-recommendation-early-monk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2018\/09\/monday-recommendation-early-monk\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Recommendation: Early Monk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thelonious Monk: <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2wArG5G\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Complete Prestige Recordings<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/71wBcD15gjL._SX522_-1-e1536005594709.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10176\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/71wBcD15gjL._SX522_-1-e1536005594709.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"308\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a>Any Monk collection without the Prestige dates is missing the pianist\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s early partnership with Art Blakey, who is considered by many musicians and critics to have been Monk\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ideal drummer. As mentioned in the <em>Rifftides<\/em> Labor Day 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2018\/09\/for-labor-day-work.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posting<\/a> of their recording of Monk\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s composition \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Work,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d this set captures the two collaborating in the Monk staples \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Little Rootie Tootie,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Bye-Ya,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Monk\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Dream.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The box also contains classic Monk recordings with Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis, French horn master Julius Watkins, drummer Max Roach&#8221;\u00a0and bassist Percy Heath, among others. A highlight among highlights: Monk\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s unaccompanied, determined, piano solo on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Just A Gigolo.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The informative liner notes by Peter Keepnews are a bonus. The Prestige Monk box is a basic collectors item.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thelonious Monk: The Complete Prestige Recordings Any Monk collection without the Prestige dates is missing the pianist\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s early partnership with Art Blakey, who is considered by many musicians and critics to have been Monk\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ideal drummer. As mentioned in the Rifftides Labor Day 2018 posting of their recording of Monk\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s composition \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Work,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d this set captures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10174","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-recommendations","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}