https://youtu.be/Kd8f_OS9b9E
Nice scatting from Estefanía, with Jaime Serradilla on keyboard and Daniel Abad on bass. On Monk’s original Brilliant Corners album 20 takes failed to produce an acceptable version, so a composite track had to be created. As far as I know, Monk never played it again, either live or in the recording studio, until a very late, and mostly very bad, album, Thelonious Sphere Monk: Monk’s Blues, that required an aging and unhappy Thelonious to accept stunningly bad arrangements of his great music by the utterly clueless Oliver Nelson. Somehow, Thelonious managed to do justice to this famous tune. Posted by Jaime Serradilla
