Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan Mulligan Meets Monk (OJC)

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• This is one of those once-in-a-lifetime meetings of giants…Baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan and pianist Thelonious Monk team up on this 1957 recording!

  When Riverside pared Thelonious Monk and Gerry Mulligan on this album, it seemed like a daring move. It is now clear that both men were the kind of revolutionaries who had substantial respect for the jazz tradition. It was more than a meeting of giants, it was proof of the strong bond connecting theoretically opposing forms of modern jazz (bop vs. cool).

  Mulligan Meets Monk documents the 1957 meeting of two sharp musical minds. Though the pairing may seem unlikely, baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan — whose cool, West Coast style blends dexterity with laid-back grace — and Thelonious Monk — whose radical, angular piano playing and thoroughly modern composi