9 thoughts on “ Ruby, My Dear - Thelonious Monk - Monks Music / With John Coltrane (CD) ”

1. Monk's recordings for Blue Note between and , and and , were released in two volumes as Genius of Modern Music. He also cut outstanding '50s albums for Riverside, including Monk's Music, Brilliant Corners, and 5 by Monk by 5. For Columbia in the '60s, Monk issued a host of quartet and solo piano outings.

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2. Jun 22,  · Tracklist 1 Abide With Me 2 Well, You Needn't 3 Ruby, My Dear 4 Off Minor (Take 5) 5 Off Minor (Take 4) 6 Epistrophy 7 .

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3. Ruby, My Dear. A bar ballad in AABA-form that Monk composed around , and first titled "Manhattan Moods". The tune was later retitled "Ruby, My Dear" after Rubie Richardson, Monk's first love and his older sister Marion's best friend. It was however not for nostalgic reasons, but because the first phrase of the tune fit with the new title.

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4. Thelonious Monk With John Coltrane: Thelonious Monk With John Coltrane - Thelonious Monk With John Coltrane ‎ (CD, Album, RE, RM) Original Jazz Classics, Jazzland, Riverside Records: OJCCD, JLP, none: Germany: Sell This Version.

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5. Piano – Thelonious Monk (tracks: 1 to 9, 11) Tenor Saxophone – Coleman Hawkins (tracks: 1, 2, 4 to 6, 10, 11), John Coltrane4/5(1).

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6. There is minor overlapping in titles between "Monk's Music" and the album "Thelonius Monk with John Coltrane" (both from the Concord Music Group) because some of the music comes from the same June sessions. However, to get the full story you need both recordings. As an added bonus, Art Blakey was the drummer on these sessions/5(94).

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7. “Ruby, My Dear” is one of Thelonious Monk’s (piano) most sentimental and otherwise affective love songs. The melody is stark and memorably poignant and he fittingly kept it as a staple in his performance repertoire, recording it with a combo as well as an otherwise unaccompanied solo.

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8. Apr 26,  · Concord’s new reissue label Craft Recordings will next month issue their first release, The Complete Riverside Recordings, a three-LP vinyl box set that celebrates the only studio recordings of Jazz masters Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane. The musicians had performed together every night at New York’s Five Spot Cafe of that same year and between April and July they made their only.

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9. Unfortunately, only 3 of these songs came from the 1 studio session where Riverside recorded Coltrane with Monk as part of his quartet: "Nutty", "Ruby My Dear", and "Trinkle, Tinkle". 2 songs were alternate takes from the Monk's Music sessions (recorded around the same time) and 1 song is a solo Monk piece, "Functional" (which was also included /5().

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