Light Blue

Thelonious Monk · 1959 · Les Liaisons dangereuses (1960), séance de Monk pour Vadim, publiée en 2017

Context

Thelonious Monk recorded the music for Roger Vadim's Les Liaisons dangereuses on July 27, 1959, with Charlie Rouse and Barney Wilen. "Light Blue" is the only new composition from this session, whose tapes were rediscovered in 2014 and released in 2017 by Sam Records.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Jazz in film and on screen, Hard bop. Among the origins and influences of Jazz in film and on screen: Cool (Birth of the Cool), Third stream, Modern big bands.

By the same artist

• Brilliant Corners (1956)
• Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues-Are (1956)
• Pannonica (1956)
• I Surrender, Dear (1956)
• Bemsha Swing (1956)
• Blue Monk (1954)

Sources

• jazzwise.com

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