Thelonious Monk: I Hadn't Anyone Till You (Solo Monk, 1965)

This is really a weird and inspiring tune, with unexpected modulations and false resolutions. Unusually, Monk isn't very strict with the tempo, accelerating/slowing for expressive purposes. In my opinion, the tricky thing is Monk constantly shifting between swing 8th and swing 16th…

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