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This is really great, one of Monk's earliest compositions, 'Epistrophy' means turning around in Greek, where an expression is used repeatedly at the end of phrases, clauses, or whatever. Like the way RaverDrew used to say so earnestly 'Isit?' What Monk meant anyway is exactly that

 
Tin pan sound...Thelonious was not admired for this at all, he couldnt get a job anywhere for a long, long time, in his career. Main reason is his long improvisations and eccentric cuts on the piano, seen to some as psychically weird, nonsensical to most band leaders (especially convential ones like Duke Ellington and Count Basie - total rejection). But his reputation grew as a strange genius, and he kept playing at Mintons (legendary nightclub for musicians) every Monday night, and here he is playing

 
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one of my favourite standards...this take really stirs me too, as it is like a full embellishment of oldskool Chaplin music + Monk discordant bashing

 
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