Brilliant Corners 37106 Jamie Murray

Jamie Murray

"Brilliant Corners" (Riverside RLP12-226) was Thelonious Monk’s third album for Riverside Records and the first on the label to include his own music

improvisational skills of leader Vitouš and John Surman

I would choose Matthew Halsall's band

Brilliant Corners 37106 Jamie MurrayDespite various reissue formats over several decades, the seven original LPs contained in Thelonious Monk The Riverside Tenor Sessions stood perfectly well on their own at the time of initial release and remain among the highest achievements of a truly golden age. Recorded and released between 1956 and 1961, these seven Monk combo albums were critical in Monk's emergence from a decade of ridicule and neglect to his status at the pinnacle of the jazz