Blue Monk is a bebop blues written in 1954 by the great pianist, Thelonious Monk. Below is a video of the first iteration of this tune as released on his Thelonious Monk Trio album. https://youtu.be/WZcTZycaBdg This website his several resources for you on how to play this tune. First and foremost, I encourage you to learn the melody from the recording. You can use a real book, but sometimes the chords are wrong, so I advise to use the recording…
Below you will find the chords for the bebop blues tune, Blue Monk, as played by Thelonious Monk. Please note that these chords are different than the real book changes by design in order to match his initial recording from 1954 off his Thelonious Monk Trio album. Note that the real book includes an E diminished chord in measure six, which could be added in and still match the melody (but that's not how he played it on the recording.)…
Below you will find the two note voicings/guide tones and an example bass line for Blue Monk by the great pianist Thelonious Monk. You can download this by clicking the download button at the bottom. Blue-Monk-2-Note-Voicing-and-Bass-Line-PartsDownload