NewsFedora
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As someone who’s never heard it, what made it so heavily panned? Monk and Oliver Nelson with a big band sounds pretty intriguing... on paper, at least.
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doncornelius
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It sounds a bit ordinary, which is not what you want with Monk. I think someone called it a Hollywood arrangement of Monk classics.
NathanRicaud
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Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!
I feel like after this clue, it won't be Al Jarreau either! Fingers crossed it's not him!
MikeH
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I bet it’s Gza (the genius) For RHH and Monk (he has the album Genius of Modern Music). It’s inarguable because they are both called geniuses at one point or another in their careers.
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Ajax
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This post is genius
doncornelius
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He made many jazz albums, but is any of them "famously overlooked"?
On the other hand, I guess Mingus by Joni Mitchell can be called to be so.
Mather
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It's absolutely this. 100% so now, what GZA album....
MikeH
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Legend of Liquid Sword sold poorly and didn’t go gold.
Mather
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The numbers clues would still be up in the air then, because these wouldn't be billboard chart numbers no?
NathanRicaud
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There's a '12 O'Clock feature on that album, maybe that could be the '120' clue! But, that seems like too much of a stretch...
wmeugene
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NewsFedora
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ngl that sounds like the sort of album I'd totally dig. I'll need to check it out on the youtubes.
MikeH
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Good point! My money is on Ray or Monk although Monk had more under appreciated and poorly selling albums I think.
MikeH
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I meant that was more of part of Storf’s clue saying it was famously overlooked. Wasn’t met with as much fan fare as his other work and didn’t sell well.
Mather
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Oh I know I just mean we still haven't locked down WHAT those numbers are.
NathanRicaud
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I really wanted to get Ghostface Killah's Apollo Kids...
MikeH
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I never bought into them being billboard chart numbers. It’s too random and vague a clue and was unlikely to fit both categories. It’s probably something simple that we are overlooking...
NewsFedora
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Thelonious Monk - Live In Paris, 1964
View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1989 Vinyl release of "Live In Paris, 1964" on Discogs.
www.discogs.com
Catalogue number is "FC 132"
Of course, why an album released seven years after his death would cause Monk to have a public, unique display of consternation I dunno.
