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These are the records that get played on the turntable at the RADPAD, a house of musicians and artists in Brooklyn.

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A ravishingly beautiful girl in the record store said something to me like this, “I don’t like greatest hits collections. Records are written and produced to be consumed as a cohesive whole, like a novel. It would be like having a Fitzgerald greatest hits with different chapters from all of his books.” Yes, but I still like me some greatest hits records. Not only did Panorama have on it rare Monk gems like “Liza,” “Off Minor,” and, “Little Rootie Tootie,” it also featured the following drummers: Max Roach, Shadow Wilson, Art Blakey, and Art Taylor. Whoa. Seriously, every single thing Thelonious Monk did was utterly brilliant. His voice is one of the most easily recognizable in jazz, unyieldingly quirky, witty, silly, and funky. Monk is like the creep, genius kid in your fourth grade class who’s always smirking and lurking because he knows something naughty and dirty about sex that you don’t know yet. Watch these videos and you’ll see what I’m talkin’ about.

A ravishingly beautiful girl in the record store said something to me like this, “I don’t like greatest hits collections. Records are written and produced to be consumed as a cohesive whole, like a novel. It would be like having a Fitzgerald greatest hits with different chapters from all of his books.” Yes, but I still like me some greatest hits records. Not only did Panorama have on it rare Monk gems like “Liza,” “Off Minor,” and, “Little Rootie Tootie,” it also featured the following drummers: Max Roach, Shadow Wilson, Art Blakey, and Art Taylor. Whoa. Seriously, every single thing Thelonious Monk did was utterly brilliant. His voice is one of the most easily recognizable in jazz, unyieldingly quirky, witty, silly, and funky. Monk is like the creep, genius kid in your fourth grade class who’s always smirking and lurking because he knows something naughty and dirty about sex that you don’t know yet. Watch these videos and you’ll see what I’m talkin’ about.