Well, You Needn't

Thelonious Monk · 1947 · Premier enregistrement, trio, 24 octobre 1947 (Blue Note)

Context

Thelonious Monk recorded this tune on October 24, 1947, at the WOR studios in New York, in a trio with Gene Ramey and Art Blakey, at his first sessions for Blue Note. The track appears on Genius of Modern Music, Vol. 1.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's). Among the origins and influences of Bebop: Kansas City, Swing, big bands.

By the same artist

• 'Round Midnight (1947)
• Ruby, My Dear (1947)
• In Walked Bud (1947)
• Epistrophy (1948)
• Straight, No Chaser (1951)
• Blue Monk (1954)

Sources

• EN: Genius of Modern Music, Vols. One & Two

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