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Approaching Standards
Monday March 1st, 2010 with Bruce Walton
Shades of Monk

One of the greatest composers of jazz standards was Thelonious Sphere Monk.
Bemsha Swing
Hal Galper - The Music Of Thelonious Monk (Maybeck Hall Recitial Series, vol. 6) (1990)
Bright Mississippi
Allen Toussaint - The Bright Mississippi (2009)
Four In One
Misha Mengelberg Quartet - Four In One (2001)
In Walked Bud
Peter Bernstein Trio - Monk (2009)
Evidence
Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane - At Carnegie Hall (Nov. 29/1957)
Ask Me Now
Bobby Broom - Bobby Broom Plays For Monk (2009)
Abide With Me
Thelonious Monk - Monk's Music (1957)
Well You Needn't
Cannonball Adderley - The Cannonball Adderley Quintet Plus (1961)
Straight No Chaser
Thelonious Monk Quartet - Live At The It Club (1964)
Ruby, My Dear
Thelonious Monk Septet - Monk's Music (1957)
Crepuscule With Nellie
Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane - At Carnegie Hall
Pannonica
Sonny Fortune - Four In One (1994)
Misterioso (1948)
Thelonious Monk - The Complete 1947-1952 Blue Note Recordings
Reflections
Sonny Fortune - Four In One (1994)
Monk's Mood
Wynton Marsalis - Marsalis Plays Monk (1999)
Who Knows
Dave Douglas - Five (1995)
Round Midnight
Robert Wyatt - 1982 Pieces (1999)