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Originally Posted by REDeYeS00
Yes. It was what I found and I assume it is good enough for my purposes. At first I thought I would go by release date, but now I think going by recording date makes more sense.
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just him as the leader, or are you blending in the recordings with Miles, Blakey, Sonny, etc. in chronological order?
I hope to do *all* the recordings unless I find a reason to reject one after I dive in. I assume there will be surprises.
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the density of music (two or three albums a year), makes for a deep dive in to what he was exploring at the time.
Yeah, it should be pretty interesting. I'm in no hurry whatsoever, and that is a good thing. I intend to set up a little spreadsheet with room for some brief notes and track it all that way. I'm in the middle of an immense writing project that I started during the plague, and this will be a nice relief from it. I can listen to Monk and my mind will stop worrying about other things.
My only reservation is that I feel I understand Monk better when I can watch him in videos. It may just be my imagination, though. At any rate I'm going to start with the LPs.