Fantasy / Riverside

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Top Fantasy / Riverside Albums

Misterioso by Thelonious Monk

Thelonious Himself by Thelonious Monk

Portrait In Jazz by Bill Evans

Editor's Picks

Work Song [ Keepnews Collection ]

Nat Adderley

Solo Flight

Charlie Byrd

The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings, 1961

Bill Evans

Riverside Profiles

Bill Evans

Top Tracks from Fantasy / Riverside

	Listen	Track Name	Length	Download

1.		Brilliant Corners Artist: Thelonious Monk Album: Brilliant Corners	7:45
2.		Ba-lue Bolivar Ba-lues-are Artist: Thelonious Monk Album: Brilliant Corners	13:07
3.		I Surrender, Dear Artist: Thelonious Monk Album: Brilliant Corners	5:27
4.		Bemsha Swing Artist: Thelonious Monk Album: Brilliant Corners	7:40
5.		Pannonica Artist: Thelonious Monk Album: Brilliant Corners	8:50
6.		Blue In Green Artist: Bill Evans Album: Portrait In Jazz	5:25
7.		Misterioso Artist: Thelonious Monk Album: Misterioso	10:55
8.		I Should Care Artist: Thelonious Monk Album: Thelonious Himself	3:15
9.		Four On Six Artist: Wes Montgomery Album: The Best Of Wes Montgomery	6:15
10.		My Man's Gone Now Artist: Bill Evans Album: Bill Evans Trio: Sunday At The Village Vanguard	6:24

About Fantasy / Riverside

Launched on a shoestring budget in 1953 by traditional jazz enthusiasts Bill Grauer and Orrin Keepnews in order to reissue classic jazz and blues recordings from the 1920s by King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Ma Rainey, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and others, Riverside Records turned out to be one of the premier purveyors of modern jazz. With Keepnews producing the sessions (and writing the liner notes), Riverside soon brought such giants as Thelonious Monk, Bill Evans, Cannonball Adderley, and Wes Montgomeryto the forefront of American music. The New York-based company, which also recorded albums by Sonny Rollins, Abbey Lincoln, Art Blakey, Mongo Santamaria, John Lee Hooker, Jimmy Heath, Johnny Griffin, Charlie Byrd, and the Staple Singers, among many others, folded in 1964, a year after Grauer's death. The Riverside catalog (including the Jazzland and Battle subsidiaries) was acquired by Fantasy, Inc. in 1972.