It has been noted that the mixes of these releases are extremely different. The stereo version was released 9 months after the mono, in August 1958.
This was the first Riverside Thelonious Monk album recorded and released in both mono (RLP 12-242) and stereo (RLP 1102). John Coltrane had joined Monk after playing with the Miles Davis Quintet, and Monk can be heard enthusiastically calling on him ("Coltrane! Coltrane!") to take the first horn solo on the album in " Well, You Needn't." All of the songs except one are original compositions by Monk all of the originals but "Crepuscule with Nellie" had appeared on previous Monk albums and singles in prior performances. The song " Ruby, My Dear" is performed only by Monk, Coleman Hawkins, Wilbur Ware, and Art Blakey. Monk-is played only by the septet's horn section. This first volume of Genius of Modern Music, along with the second, belongs in every jazz collection.The first song, " Abide With Me"-a hymn by W.
But the excitement of discovery permeates every measure, and Monk himself is in top form, his solos jagged and strange, yet utterly beautiful. There are kinks to be worked out: Art Blakey's drumming is fine, but he obviously hasn't quite taken the measure of Monk's compositional genius, and on the November session, alto saxophonist Sahib Shihab employs a fat, warbly tone that sounds out of place. They include some of the earliest recordings of Monk compositions that would become standards, despite their angularity and technical difficulty: the strange, sideways chord progression of "Thelonious" the bouncy and cheerful but melodically cockeyed "Well, You Needn't" the post-bop Bud Powell tribute "In Walked Bud" and, of course, "'Round Midnight," which is now one of the most frequently recorded jazz compositions ever. It's impossible to overstate the importance of these sessions.
Volume 1 of the two-volume Genius of Modern Music set comprises the first sessions Thelonious Monk recorded as a leader, on October 15 and 24 and November 21 of 1947.
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