Thelonious Monk

• DIGIPACK EDITION

Johnny Griffin came to Monk with a reputation as a speed demon - double-timing the tempo was his default mechanism, elaborating melodies with a mixture et mellow swing and complex bop phrasing. Their contrasting nature - Griffin's fluid extravagance an I Monk's percussive dissections - intensified by Roy Haynes' forceful divisions of the beat., generate a tension unlike any of Monk's subsequent: groups.

PERSONNEL:

• Johnny Griffin - (tenor saxophone)
• Thelonious Monk - (piano)
• Ahmed Abdul-Malik - (double bass)
• Roy Haynes - (drums)

New York, August 7, 1958

TRACKS:

• 01. Light Blue
• 02. Coming On The Hudson
• 03. Rhythm-A-Ning
• 04. Blue Monk
• 05. Evidence
• 06. Nutty
• 07. Blues Five Spot
• 08. Let's Cool One
• 09. In Walked Bud
• 10. Misterioso