This I agree with! I also checked out the album and was a bit like “this is good, but it isn’t incredible”. And then when I played the pressing, it was so good! The guitar playing, drums, horns, the singing! It had so much swing and punch and an open soundstage! It’s actually such a great ROTM! One of the best sounding Classics ROTM pressings in my opinion!
I always feel like the clues are stretched and never really line-up with the chosen pick. For a while, Monk was seen as being an outsider (I guess he always was) and I suppose you could kind of say some of his albums were overlooked. However, 'famously overlooked' (i think that was the clue?) would suggest its an album which is now incredibly popular but was dismissed at the time. I can't really think of any Monk albums that would fit that description (although I really do hope it is him!)
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Omg, that’s so freaking adorable that your kids ask to listen to Albert King, Shabaka and Max Richter! soooooo so so so cute!My 2 cents on the King record, using Elvis’ songs as a medium for King’s solos is inspired. Have enjoyed this as much as any other “classic” I’ve gotten from VMP. And my 6 and 9 year old who’ve not heard Elvis as far as I’m aware will request to listen to this regularly (along with Shabaka, Max Richter and the Spiderverse soundtrack
This is by no means definitive or wholly accurate I basically just counted down releases as liste in All Music.
I hope it’s Thelonious Monk because if it was Ray Charles, I’d rather it be a soul album instead of a jazz one!
Yeah, I feel like the chances of Storf being "right" on this number are slim. But proving what the "right" one is seems like a lot of work!
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Brilliant Corners is on two previous VMP best of lists.
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