Brilliant Corners

Infobox Album |
Name = Brilliant Corners
Type = Album
Artist = Thelonious Monk


Released = 1957
Recorded = December 17–December 23 1956
Genre = Jazz
Length = 42:47
Label = Riverside/OJC
Producer = Orrin Keepnews
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:5votk6gxlkrh link]
Last album = "The Unique Thelonious Monk"
(1956)
This album = "Brilliant Corners"
(1957)
Next album = "Thelonious Himself"
(1957)

"Brilliant Corners" is a 1957 album by jazz musician Thelonious Monk. It was his third album for the Riverside label and the first, for this label, to include his own compositions. The complex title track required over a dozen takes in the studio, and is considered one of his most difficult compositions. In 2003, it was one of fifty recordings chosen that year by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry.

Because of its historical significance the album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999. [ [http://www.grammy.com/Recording_Academy/Awards/Hall_Of_Fame/#b Grammy Hall of Fame] ]

The track "Pannonica" is named for Pannonica de Koenigswarter, a close friend of Monk's.

Track listing

#"Brilliant Corners" (Thelonious Monk) –7:42
#"Ba-lue Bolivar Ba-lues-are" (Monk) –13:24
#"Pannonica" (Monk) –8:50
#"I Surrender, Dear" (Barris-Clifford) –5:25
#"Bemsha Swing" (Monk-Best) –7:42

Personnel

* Thelonious Monk — piano; celeste
* Ernie Henry — alto saxophone
* Sonny Rollins — tenor saxophone
* Oscar Pettiford — double bass
* Max Roach — drums; timpani
* Clark Terry — trumpet
* Paul Chambers — double bass

* Orrin Keepnews - producer
* Jack Higgins - engineer
* Joe Tarantino - mastering

Footnotes