Criss-Cross, Thelonious Monk's second album for Columbia, features some of the finest work that Monk ever did in the studio with his '60s trio and quartet. Monk and Charlie Rouse (tenor), John Ore...
Acked alternately by bassists Percy Heath and Gary Mapp and drummers Art Blakey and Max Roach, Monk pours forth his idiosyncratic virtuosity in this set of tunes recorded by the inimitable Rudy Van...