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This two-CD set from the Swedish tag Dragon features the Thelonious Monk Quartet just prior to the pianist signing with Columbia. Taken from a radio broadcast, these performances feature ten Monk compositions plus InchI'm Getting Sentimental over YouInch and brief piano solos on InchJust a GigoloInch and InchBody and Soul.Inch On this tour, the solos of bassist John Ore and drummer Frankie Dunlop are run of the mill, but Monk and tenor-saxophonist Charlie Rouse are in excellent form. Album Tracks 1. Jackie-Ing 2. I'm Getting Sentimental Over You 3. Crepuscule with Nellie 4. Ba-Lu Bolivar Ba-Lues-Are 5. Rhythm-A-Ning 6. Epistrophy 7. Just a Gigolo 8. Well, You Needn't 9. 'Round Midnight 10. Bemsha Swing 11. Blue Monk 12. Epistrophy 13. Body and Soul
