Standard Time Volume 4 - Marsalis Plays Monk

Just as Thelonious Monk remains the most modern of jazz composers some twenty years after his death, so Wynton found inspiration for playing his music in the groundbreaking, and still avant-garde, music that Louis Armstrong created with his 1927 and 1928 jazz orchestras. Both Armstrong and Monk were artists of great surprise. On the evidence here - provocative interpretations of "Evidence," "Let's Cool One," "Brilliant Corners," and other Monk masterpieces - there's no doubt that Wynton is, too.