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About this product
Product Identifiers
Record LabelSmsg, SAM Records / Saga
UPC0881034155443
eBay Product ID (ePID)14046057886
Product Key Features
Release Year2017
FormatRecord
GenreJazz
ArtistThelonious Monk
Release TitleLes Liaisons Dangereuses 1960
Dimensions
Item Height0.15 in
Item Weight0.68 lb
Item Length12.85 in
Item Width12.72 in
Additional Product Features
Number of Tracks10
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
TracksRhythm-A-Ning, Crepuscule with Nellie, Six in One, Well You Needn't, Pannonica (Solo), Pannonica (Solo), Pannonica (Quartet), Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues-Are, Light Blue, By and By (We'll Understand It Better By and By)
Number of Discs1
NotesVinyl LP pressing. The only soundtrack recorded by Thelonious Monk in 1959. Contains performances of classic Monk tunes heard in Roger Vadim's 1960 French film Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Features Monk's 1959 all-star band of Charlie Rouse, Sam Jones and Art Taylor, plus special guest saxophonist Barney Wilen. Thelonious Monk had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire. Monk is the second most-recorded jazz composer after Duke Ellington, which is particularly remarkable as Ellington composed more than a thousand pieces, whereas Monk wrote about 70. His compositions and improvisations feature dissonances and angular melodic twists and are consistent with his unorthodox approach to the piano, which combined a highly percussive attack with abrupt, dramatic use of switched key releases, silences, and hesitations.