Lunch Time Recital

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Blue Monk
by Thelonious Monk

Performed by : Lee Kah Kian

"Blue Monk" is a jazz standard written by Thelonious Monk that has

become one of his most enduring tunes. First recorded for the album
Thelonious Monk Trio, it is a B flat blues.

Blue Monk by Thelonious Monk was the pianists favorite composition,

according to Laurent de Wilde in Monk, and he recorded it often.
In a 1963 interview when asked to name a record that he plays on that he
especially likes his answer is Blue Monk with the trio.

He first recorded it on September 22, 1954, with Art Blakey on drums and
Percy Heath on bass. The film Jazz on a Summers Day features him
performing Blue Monk at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival.