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Track Listings
| 1. Monk's Dream |
| 2. Body And Soul |
| 3. Bright Mississippi |
| 4. Blues Five Spot |
| 5. Blue Bolivar Blues |
| 6. Just A Gigolo |
| 7. Bye-ya |
| 8. Sweet And Lovely |
| 9. Monk's Dream |
| 10. Body And Soul |
| 11. Bright Mississippi |
| 12. Blue Bolivar Blues |
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Originally released in early 1963, Monk's Dream was the first Thelonious Monk album for Columbia. At the time this was recorded (first sessions on Halloween, 1962), he had become one of the pre-eminent figures in contemporary jazz. His move to Columbia put him in the company of a couple of the era's other major talents and commercial successes, Miles Davis and Dave Brubeck, and his quartet was stabilised for a couple years with tenor saxophonist Charlie Rouse (with him since 1958), bassist John Ore, and drummer Frankie Dunlop. This album set the format for his succeeding works for the label over the next half-dozen years: a few standards mixed with originals, most of which had been recorded earlier in his career (the only new composition is "Bright Mississippi", itself a variation on the chordal structure of "Sweet Georgia Brown"). However, these performances find Monk in exuberant good cheer. His playing sparkles with invention and the relaxation and calm of a career in well-deserved ascension. Critically under-celebrated in its day, Monk's Dream is rich with the confidence of a band at its peak. --David Greenberger
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These 1962 recordings were Thelonious Monk's first for Columbia Records, with whom he spent the most commercially successful years of his career. Mixing his own highly personalised renditions of standards with originals, this was a patternhe followed for all of his subsequent releases with the label. Of his originals, only "Bright Mississippi" had never been recorded before, but after decades of toiling in obscurity, the re-recording of tunes such as "Bolivar Blues" and "Bye-Ya" was most certainly warranted. This is in part because they'd not been heard before by most of his new and wide audience, and also because this quartet (with Charlie Rouse, John Ore and Frankie Dunlop) had been playing at this point for two years--longer than he'd ever been able to keep an ensemble together before--and they'd settled into Monk's music like one charismatic and multi-limbed being.
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