I would say any Monk fan would require the Blue Note years - they are defining (the alternate takes are nice, though I agree I don't like to listen to discs with back to back master/alternate. Not a problem with digital players). And I've never for a second regretted owning the Riverside box. But you can mostly piece it together with individual albums - many of which range from very good to classic.
In other words, Blue Note and Riverside years are huge gaps if you don't have most of it. His solo 1954 Vogue release is very good.
I'm following the suggestions for Thelonius Monk with interest as he is very unrepresented in my collection, time I downloaded a few albums. I'm aware that I have a lot of contemporary jazz, thanks to Jonah's reviews etc, but my back catalogue is poor, other than Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Dave Brubeck, and a few other individual albums
Local indie mag City Pages announced their Picked to Click list yesterday, which is a list of top new local bands. Somehow I had missed that Grant Culter (attention, BN) had a new synth pop duo with local singer Claire de Lune called tiny deaths. So:
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The New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers
Seeing them tonight! With Neko in attendance!
Craig
Galaktlan - Sinine Platoo
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Si Matthews - Tales of Ten Worlds (Revisited)
Richard Hell & The Voidoids - Blank Generation
This is the single-disc Monk Blue Note album I have. It's a great intro to the basic tunes - all of these takes are 3 minutes or so.
Downloadable from Soundcloud
In other words, Blue Note and Riverside years are huge gaps if you don't have most of it. His solo 1954 Vogue release is very good.
Currently streaming from Bandcamp, thanks amc2
I'm following the suggestions for Thelonius Monk with interest as he is very unrepresented in my collection, time I downloaded a few albums. I'm aware that I have a lot of contemporary jazz, thanks to Jonah's reviews etc, but my back catalogue is poor, other than Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Dave Brubeck, and a few other individual albums
tiny deaths - s/t
Craig
A Dave Sumner Wondering Sound pick a little while ago.
Tyte Jeff - s/t EP
Craig
NP: Porya Hatami - The Black Woodpecker
and a short while ago I was playing this, which I picked up used on CD and then did not listen to properly - really like it on more attentive listen.
Anders Jormin, Anders Kjellberg, Bobo Stenson, Don Cherry, Lennart Aberg and Okay Temiz - Dona Nostra
ETA: from an insightful Amazon reviewer: (That's it, the entire review.)
Mount Analog - New Skin
Cinchel - Nature (Part 1)
This sounds exactly like Final Cut or Division Bell.
Gescom, aka Autechre from 1996 . . . Sublime stuff !
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Stomu Takeishi - bass
Ted Poor - drums
Cuong Vu - trumpet/writing
Guest - Bill Frisell - guitar