Monk's ninth studio album for Columbia, recorded on 14 November: Ellington's "I Didn't Know About You"; a new composition "Green Chimneys" and Fanny Crosby and Phoebe Knapp's "This Is My Story, This Is My Song," and on 15 November 1966: "Locomotive". On 10 January 1967 the quartet recorded the remaining compositions "Straight, No Chaser", "We See" and "Kojo No Tsuki" also known as "Japanese Folk Song," and the session was completed with a solo version of "Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea." Monk's ninth studio album for Columbia, recorded on 14 November: Ellington's "I Didn't Know About You"; a new composition "Green Chimneys" and Fanny Crosby and Phoebe Knapp's "This Is My Story, This Is My Song," and on 15 November 1966: "Locomotive". On 10 January 1967 the quartet recorded the remaining compositions "Straight, No Chaser", "We See" and "Kojo No Tsuki" also known as "Japanese Folk Song," and the session was completed with a solo version of "Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea." false 2024-02-27 21:44:27 Straight, No Chaser 7 2007 2007-01-01 2007-01-01 76 Jazz 118404 2154670 cc99d74d-c458-4841-b5d5-7f5276317763 8e8c7417-c905-46b1-b42a-5260b4274ed4 2fa4f0a6-c919-3de6-8836-0de992957ecc /media/data/media5/Music/Thelonious Monk/Straight, No Chaser (1967)/folder.jpg Thelonious Monk AlbumArtist /config/metadata/People/T/Thelonious Monk/folder.jpg Thelonious Monk Artist /config/metadata/People/T/Thelonious Monk/folder.jpg Thelonious Monk Thelonious Monk 1 Locomotive 06:40 2 I Didn't Know About You 06:52 3 Straight, No Chaser 11:28 4 Japanese Folk Song 16:42 5 Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea 07:36 6 We See 11:37 7 This Is My Story, This Is My Song 01:42 8 I Didn't Know About You 06:49 9 Green Chimneys 06:33 Thelonious Sphere Monk ( October 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982) was an American jazz pianist and composer. He had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "'Round Midnight", "Blue Monk", "Straight, No Chaser", "Ruby, My Dear", "In Walked Bud", and "Well, You Needn't". Monk is the second-most-recorded jazz composer after Duke Ellington. Monk's compositions and improvisations feature dissonances and angular melodic twists, often using flat ninths, flat fifths, unexpected chromatic notes together, low bass notes and stride, and fast whole tone runs, combining a highly percussive attack with abrupt, dramatic use of switched key releases, silences, and hesitations. Monk's distinct look included suits, hats, and sunglasses. He also had an idiosyncratic habit during performances: while other musicians continued playing, Monk would stop, stand up, and dance for a few moments before returning to the piano. Monk is one of five jazz musicians to have been featured on the cover of Time (the others being Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck, Duke Ellington, and Wynton Marsalis).