The boxed set was made under the aegis of Orrin Keepnews (who died in March, at the age of ninety-one), the producer and the co-founder of the Riverside label, who, as a critic in the late forties, was among the first to recognize Monk's genius. The list of Monk's sidemen in this set indicates the level of creativity on display it includes John Coltrane, Coleman Hawkins, Sonny Rollins, Art Blakey, and Max Roach, and they’re all in stellar form, due not least to Monk’s own musical invigoration. These fifteen disks find Monk in a wide range of musical settings-solo, trio, quartet, quintet, sextet, septet, and a big band-and locations, including the studio, New York’s Town Hall and the Five Spot, San Francisco’s Blackhawk, and concert halls in Paris and Milan. Monk was the master of the single note, perfectly selected, timed, and struck so that it would have a symphonic amplitude.
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