BEMSHA SWING

Created on 28/05/2001
Latest update on 27/07/2023

Artist: Thelonious Monk Trio
Author: Denzil Best/Thelonious Monk
Label: Prestige
Year: 1954

With Gerry Mapp and Art Blakey. Re-recorded in '56 for album Brilliant Corners.

Covers:

1955:

Miles Davis [with Monk]

1956:

Cecil Taylor

1963:

Bill Evans

1986:

Woody Shaw [title track live album]

1989:

Red Hot Chili Peppers [as F.U., which stands for what you think it stands for; out on their Out In L.A. compilation ('94); bassist Flea is a heavy Monker]

1991:

Jim Cooper

1992:

Big Sugar

1993:

Medeski, Martin & Wood [in medley with Bob Marley's Lively Up Yourself]

1997:

Fred Hersch Trio

1999:

Andy Summers [on Monk tribute Green Chimneys]

2002:

Larry Coryell

2004:

Charlie Watts [on Watts At Scott's]

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