Thelonious Monk: Body and Soul (Monk in Italy, 1961)

Thelonious monk wrote this crazy reharmonization of Body and Soul, with a lot of chromatic harmonies, a lot of whole-tone scales and some of the crunchiest chords.

He recorded his arrangement a few times, the best known of which is probably the one on Monk's Dream (1963), but there are also several live versions, including this one. The tempo here is very free, I tried my best to get close to it!

Listen here.

PDF, 4 pages.

I've made two versions : one in Db key signature, and one with no alteration in the key – it's hard to say that Monk really plays it in the key of Db, it might be easier to read for you!