Solo Monk

Solo Monk

Track Listings

1. Dinah

2. I Surrender, Dear

3. Sweet and Lovely

4. North of the Sunset

5. Ruby, My Dear

6. I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)

7. I Hadn't Anyone Till You

8. Everything Happens to Me

9. Monk's Point

10. I Should Care

11. Ask Me Now

12. These Foolish Things

13. Introspection [#]

Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
When the great bandleader and jazz composer made this lovely, lightweight solo piano album in late 1964 and early 1965, he unexpectedly turned to standards more than to his own twisty, harmonically dense compositions (although there are a couple of those here, too, notably "Ruby, My Dear" and "Ask Me Now"). And not the usual jazz standards, either--more lounge-singer and Tin Pan Alley standards, like "These Foolish Things" and Bing Crosby's "I SurrENDer, Dear." In an unusually cheerful, relaxed mood, Monk plays with the sharp, tinkly attack, octave trills, and rock-solid left-hand rhythms of the New Orleans stride piano players he grew up listening to, but he takes advantage of the absence of a band to mess with tempo, too. --Douglas Wolk

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