[Please join the The Data Stream in celebrating the 90th anniversary of the birth of Thelonius Sphere Monk, a giant of jazz and one of the twentieth century's greatest composers and pianists.
Below is a fantastic performance of Harry Warren's 1935 Lulu's Back in Town, a standard in Monk's performance repertoire. The YouTube information is listed as follows:
Live in Norway 1966
Thelonious Monk - Piano
Charlie Rouse - Tenor
Larry Gales - Bass
Ben Riley - Drums]
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While preparing to introduce Monk's music to an undergraduate intermedia class at Iowa, I turned up a very different rendition of the tune, one with its own engaging, albeit whacky performance elements.
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