Piano Solo (reissue) WIN008 The quintet album The Free

The quintet album The Free Slave is one of Brooks’ few recordings as a leader

and saxophonist Charlie Ventura

Housed in Stoughton Printing tip-on single pocket jacket

plus interviews with artists who knew or were inspired by Charles Mingus

Immortalised in hip-hop folklore

Piano Solo (reissue) WIN008 The quintet album The FreeNorth Carolina pianist Thelonious Monk sounds utterly unguarded across these extraordinary 1954 Paris recordings, captured originally for French radio and now expanded well beyond the original Vogue 10" edition. With the trio performances sitting beside stark solo takes, the set offers a rare glimpse into how Monk continuously bent and reshaped his own material in real time. The solo reading of 'Round Midnight' feels especially uncanny, all suspended