Some suggestions for those who like this album:

Art Blakey - The Witch Doctor
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue; Someday My Prince Will Come
Dave Brubeck - Time Out
Oliver Nelson - The Blues and the Abstract Truth

Monk can be a bit tough to digest for a new jazz listener. I'd try other jazz before diving into Monk's catalogue.

If you want to get into Miles' fusion period and are coming from rock, then I would start with Jeff Beck's Blow By Blow. If you like that, then go to Miles Davis' A Tribute to Jack Johnson. If that works for you, then move on to Bitches Brew, then return to In a Silent Way. Ease into it.

At last

Album Rating: 5.0

classic Jazz album, the first Jazz records i ever listened to were Monk albums i've been hooked ever since.

Awesome review

Album Rating: 4.5

thanks much!

Album Rating: 5.0

loved free for all, but love this even more



bit underrated surely

Album Rating: 5.0

Great review. This is knocking my socks off right now.

Album Rating: 4.5

so fuckin good

Album Rating: 4.0

Essential album.

Album Rating: 4.5

I have had the intro to Moanin' stuck in my head for weeks now...



Great album though, and great review.

Album Rating: 3.0

hard bop besides Coltrane has yet to click with me as much as I'd like it to. I'm always into the first couple tracks then by the end of the album it all feels like a slurry of the same elements :/ just time needed I guess

Moanin' Bell

Album Rating: 4.0

Morning bell? :O

A perfect introduction to jazz. If you don't like the title track than jazz is not for you

Album Rating: 3.5

really puts the bop in Hard Bop, been listening a fair amount this week and I think it might be one of my fave takes on the sound thus far