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Good reception and good artist, honest and valid. I only know of him from the excellent Kisses in The Rain, which is also high-level easy listening.

Great Herbie Nichols!!

Cox, "it is certainly true that at a purely musical level, Monk has little or nothing to do with bop, but historically he still played with the sacred monsters of bop," this is exactly what I wanted to say. I mean, it’s not correct to say that if someone has played with drugged musicians, that makes them drugged. Monk didn’t play bop; he played with the boppers, which is different. Then it’s clear that to simplify, one could also label him a bop pianist, there’s no problem with that, as long as (like you) one shows that they understand that, at a musical level, he does not represent an "explanatory" figure of the bop piano language. He played his music in his own way, and when he wasn't playing his music, he still did it in his own way.

I agree with Muffin! Good review, but I don't agree with you on several "historical" points. Monk did not choose to record this album; the record label chose it. Moreover, I don't think there's this "notable influence" of Ellington in Monk's music. He was never a "bop" pianist, even though he acted as a catalyst for the birth of bop, with his enormous influence (harmonically and in terms of rhythmic conception more than stylistically) on Bird, Dizzy, Bud, and Miles. In '55, bebop was not thriving; it had practically given way to hard bop, a "genre" that Miles also tackled. His Walkin' from '54 is one of the anthems of hard bop, followed in '55 by 'Round Midnight and in '56 by Cookin', Relaxin', Workin', and Steamin', other hard bop masterpieces. In short, by then Miles had nothing cool left, contrary to what you claim. This album is more of a curiosity than one of his masterpieces! 3.5 rounded up to 4 to average out with Muffin's 3.

AH AH it's hard to stay still with this!! Solomon in the biography seems to focus more on the third and the fourth, you’re right. I remember Mozart's concertos better with K... off the top of my head, I immediately think of 466, 467, 595, but also that wonderful youthful masterpiece which is 271!! If you don't know it, you absolutely need to get it. I also really like Tchaikovsky's first (an incisiveness worthy of Beethoven), and the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th of Rachmaninoff. Unfortunately, I don't know Liszt's second... I would also add Brahms' two concertos, the "normal" and left-hand concertos of Ravel, Schumann's, Grieg's, and the beautiful Poème de la Flamme by Scriabin for piano and orchestra!! Thanks for the visit :-D

Yeah!!!!

Uxo, I was with you!! Thanks to Punisher

I agree with the reviewer. Tired and worn out, but shot I would say almost with "sobriety." The forest chase scenes are really stressful...

Enough, enough, enough and enough. I didn't need to pay to see Avatar, and I don't need to pay to know how crappy this film is either. People, this "real 3D" is SMOKE, true Cinema doesn’t need it. Was the scene in Snow White's forest better in 3D??? Is the quality of Sven Nykvist's photography for Bergman's films improvable??? This is not innovation, it is not experimentation, it is not a technical achievement to better express artistic and expressive needs. It is a well-established sales strategy. Do you know how many crappy remakes will invade with their dishonest stench the increasingly lousy multiplexes?

Great!! Unfortunately, I am not familiar with the piece...