Gerry Mulligan & Thelonious Monk - Mulligan Meets Monk (1957) [Remastered 1992]
EAC Rip | FLAC: Tracks+Cue+Log | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | Scans
320 Mb | 146 Mb | Time: 59:50
Riverside Records | OJC20 301-2
Jazz, Cool, Post-Bop
Critics thought the pairing of Gerry Mulligan and Thelonious Monk a strange one when this 1957 session was originally released, Mulligan's light baritone saxophone strongly identified with the cool school and Monk's percussive piano, fractured rhythms, and dissonant tunes the last word in bop. It's an interesting combination, though, with Mulligan's melodic focus actually working fairly well with Monk and his regular band, drummer Shadow Wilson and bassist Wilbur Ware. …