General Article name: Monk
Genre: Jazz Product type: LP (Vinyl) Label: DOXY Number of tracks: 7 Duration: Tracklist LP - 1 1. Frank Foster / Thelonious Monk / Sonny Rollins - Let's Call This 2. Frank Foster / Thelonious Monk / Sonny Rollins - Think of One [Take Two] 3. Frank Foster / Thelonious Monk / Sonny Rollins - Think of One [Take One] 4. Frank Foster / Thelonious Monk / Sonny Rollins - We See 5. Frank Foster / Thelonious Monk / Sonny Rollins - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes 6. Frank Foster / Thelonious Monk / Sonny Rollins - Locomotive 7. Frank Foster / Thelonious Monk / Sonny Rollins - Hackensack   Description Album Review (en)

Thelonious Monk's Prestige recordings (reissued on three LP-length CDs) have been somewhat neglected through the years but, with the exception of a date for Vogue, they are the only documentation that exists of the unique pianist-composer's work as a leader during the latter half of 1952 through 1954. This set has four numbers (including Monk's originals "Wee See," "Locomotive" and the catchy "Hackensack") featuring Monk with trumpeter Ray Copeland (an underrated player), tenor saxophonist Frank Foster, bassist Curly Russell and drummer Art Blakey. However it is "Let's Call This" and the two versions of "Think of One" that are best-known, for Monk teams up with the French horn wizard Julius Watkins, bassist Percy Heath, drummer Willie Jones and the great tenor Sonny Rollins. Every Thelonious Monk recording is well worth getting although this one is not quite essential. ~ Scott Yanow

Scott Yanow

Contributors Artist: THELONIOUS MONK WITH SONNY ROLLINS & FRANK FOSTER Featured Artist: Art Blakey Record Label: Doxy Records