Thelonious Monk Discography

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Songs By

Jimmy McHugh :: Milt Jackson :: Kenny Clarke :: Denzil Best :: Joe Burke :: Jerome Kern :: Irving Caesar :: Ike Quebec :: Gus Arnheim :: Harry Barris :: Coleman Hawkins :: Andy Razaf :: Sammy Cahn :: Irving Berlin :: Clark Terry :: Harold Arlen :: Eubie Blake :: George Gershwin :: Dizzy Gillespie :: Vernon Duke

Influenced By

Duke Ellington :: Teddy Wilson

Followers

McCoy Tyner :: Roswell Rudd :: Randy Weston :: Steve Million :: Mary Lou Williams :: Mal Waldron :: Leon Thomas :: Cecil Taylor :: Julian Priester :: Hilton Ruiz :: Dave Stryker :: Chick Corea :: Alan Skidmore :: John Coltrane :: Harry Connick, Jr. :: Enrico Rava :: Errol Parker :: George Russell :: Barry Harris :: Cedar Walton

Similar Artists

Bud Powell :: Herbie Nichols :: McCoy Tyner :: Barry Harris :: Mulgrew Miller :: Benny Green :: Art Blakey :: Elmo Hope :: John Hicks :: Geri Allen :: Kenny Kirkland

Thelonious Sphere Monk is considered one of the most important (and eccentric) jazz composers of the century. One of the early practitioners of bebop during the 1940s and `50s, his complex compositions featured irregular rhythms, dissonant sounds and a quirky sense of humor. He was the composer of such jazz standards as "`Round Midnight" and "Straight No Chaser