One of this man's albums opens with the horn section of the septet playing a rendition of "Abide with Me," while "Green Chimneys" and "Boo-Boo's Birthday" accompanied his only waltz, "Ugly Beauty," on his late album Underground. A namesake 1957 album includes audio of this man shouting "Coltrane! Coltrane!" and the first recording of "Crepuscule with Nellie." Another album by this man contains a track named for his friend the Baroness de Koenigswater and a title track spliced together from twenty-five incomplete takes b
One of this man's albums opens with the horn section of the septet playing a rendition of "Abide with Me," while "Green Chimneys" and "Boo-Boo's Birthday" accompanied his only waltz, "Ugly Beauty," on his late album Underground. A namesake 1957 album includes audio of this man shouting "Coltrane! Coltrane!" and the first recording of "Crepuscule with Nellie." Another album by this man contains a track named for his friend the Baroness de Koenigswater and a title track spliced together from twenty-five incomplete takes by Orrin Keepnews of Riverside. That album also contains a track built around a descending C Spanish Phrygian scale called "Bemsha Swing". This composer of "Brilliant Corners" released four albums called Genius of Modern Music, the first of which contains his track "Epistrophy". For 10 points, name this jazz pianist best known for works like "Well, You Needn't", "Straight, No Chaser", and the prodigiously-recorded "Round Midnight".
One of this man's albums opens with the horn section of the septet playing a rendition of "Abide with Me," while "Green Chimneys" and "Boo-Boo's Birthday" accompanied his only waltz, "Ugly Beauty," on his late album Underground.
Thelonious Sphere Monk