Okay, this isn’t actually an actual album by Andy Summers. Rather, it’s a playlist I made in 2016 for my iPod consisting of five tracks from Summers’ 1999 album, Green Chimneys: The Music of Thelonious Monk, and six tracks from Summers’ 2000 Charles Mingus tribute album, Peggy’s Blue Skylight.
What I found is that when I combined those eleven tracks together, the result was a record that is even better than either of those already solid albums. In fact, the collection sounds like it could almost be Synaesthesia II, just entirely composed by Monk ‘n’ Mingus. Which really wouldn’t be surprising at all, since Synaesthesia and many of Summers’ other albums sound like they also could have been composed by Monk ‘n’ Mingus, especially as Summers is heavily influenced by those two jazz icons, in addition to other great artists from the genre.
For optional add-ons, you can include the excellent vocal tracks: “Round Midnight” featuring Sting (Green Chimneys: The Music of Thelonious Monk) and the Peggy’s Blue Skylight songs “Weird Nightmare” (featuring Deborah Harry) and “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat/Where Can a Man Find Peace?” (featuring Q-Tip).
So, without further ado, here are the eleven tracks that make up Monk ‘n’ Mingus:
From Green Chimneys: The Music of Thelonious Monk:
1. Green Chimneys
2. Shuffle Boil
3. Evidence
4. Ugly Beauty
5. Think of One
From Peggy’s Blue Skylight:
6. Boogie Stop Shuffle
7. Tonight at Noon
8. Reincarnation of a Lovebird
9. Opus Three
10. Cumbia Jazz Fusion
11. Remember Rockefeller at Attica
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