Jon Batiste – Monk Movements (LP Vinyl)

Jon Batiste grew up steeped in the New Orleans piano tradition, but Thelonious Monk represents a different kind of schooling, one built on deliberate dissonance, rhythmic displacement, and a harmonic language so idiosyncratic it remains essentially uncopyable. Approaching Monk's compositions as a solo interpreter strips away every safety net, demanding that a pianist find their own logic inside music that was already its own world.