Thelonious Monk – Thelonious Monk Plays the Music of Duke Ellington Riverside RLP 12-201 (1955)
Okay, but somehow lacking. Though Clarke and Pettiford make up an A-list rhythm section, they don’t seem to bring their “A” game to this recording. People often note how Monk softened the edges of his playing during his tenure on Columbia Records, but even here on Riverside he was doing that already.