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Tonight's Jazz Feature is a very fine recording from the mid-fifties that typifies New York modern Jazz of the time. The people involved are the leader, legendary pianist/composer Elmo Hope who in many ways is as important to the development of piano as Thelonious Monk and Bud Powell although he didn't get the same notoriety. For the fist 3 tunes the group is a quintet with tenor saxophone great Frank Foster and a fine lesser known trumpeter named Freeman Lee. On bass is John Ore and on drums is New York's Arthur Taylor. The set was done for Prestige Records in on Oct.4, 1955. The quintet pl...

Remastered recording captures Monk's 1963 performance for Japanese TV with Charlie Rouse, Butch Warren and Frankie Dunlop

Sixty years ago Jeremy French thought Monk a self-serving musical primitive who tried his audience's patience and got away with it

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