BADDEST MONK

$16.49
Label
SAVANT
Release Date
April 24, 2012
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • PERFORMER
      REED, ERIC
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      April 24, 2012
    • UPC
      633842211824
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SAVT422118.2
    • LABEL
      SAVANT
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Jazz
    Works ⌄

    1. Rhythm-a-ning

      Composer: Thelonious Monk

      Performer: Eric Reed, Seamus Blake, Matt Clohesy, Etienne Charles, Henry Cole

    2. Epistrophy

      Composer: Thelonious Monk, Kenny Clarke

      Performer: Eric Reed, Seamus Blake, Matt Clohesy, Etienne Charles, Henry Cole

    3. Green Chimneys

      Composer: Thelonious Monk

      Performer: Eric Reed, Seamus Blake, Matt Clohesy, Etienne Charles, Henry Cole

    4. Monk's Mood

      Composer: Thelonious Monk

      Performer: Eric Reed, Seamus Blake, Matt Clohesy, Etienne Charles, Henry Cole

    5. 'Round Midnight

      Composer: Cootie Williams, Thelonious Monk

      Performer: Eric Reed, Jose James, Seamus Blake, Matt Clohesy, Etienne Charles, Henry Cole

    6. Evidence

      Composer: Thelonious Monk

      Performer: Eric Reed, Seamus Blake, Matt Clohesy, Etienne Charles, Henry Cole

    7. Monk Buerre Rouge

      Composer: Eric Reed

      Performer: Eric Reed, Seamus Blake, Matt Clohesy, Etienne Charles, Henry Cole

    8. Bright Mississippi

      Composer: Thelonious Monk

      Performer: Eric Reed, Seamus Blake, Matt Clohesy, Etienne Charles, Henry Cole

    9. The Baddest Monk

      Composer: Eric Reed

      Performer: Eric Reed, Seamus Blake, Matt Clohesy, Etienne Charles, Henry Cole


Pianist Eric Reed has claimed that Monk's music makes it possible "to travel way out there, if you're willing to go where it can take you." on the Baddest Monk, Reed and his colleagues prove more than willing. The Monk classics recorded here illustrate the breadth of Reed's thought on one of the most idiosyncratic of jazz composers. Reed and his ensemble are able to penetrate to the very core the Monk's writing, dismantle it's component parts and reassemble them so that they contain not only the essence of Monk, but that of the players themselves.