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{{Infobox album
| name       = The Monk: Live at Bimhuis
| type       = live album
| artist     = [[Miho Hazama]] and [[Metropole Orkest]]
| cover      = The Monk - Live at Bimhuis.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = February 14, 2018<ref name="universal_music_japan">{{Cite web |author= |url=https://www.universal-music.co.jp/hazama-miho/products/uccj-2152/ |title=・モンク：ライヴ・アット・ビムハウス [SHM-CD] |publisher=Universal Music Japan |date=2018-02-14 | accessdate=2020-03-08 |language=Japanese |trans-title=The Monk: Live at Bimhuis [SHM-CD]}}</ref>
| recorded   =  October 13, 2017<ref>{{Cite web |author= |url=https://www.discogs.com/ja/Miho-Hazama-Metropole-Orkest-Big-Band-The-Monk-Live-At-Bimhuis/release/12276208 |title=The Monk: Live at Bimhuis |publisher=[[Discogs]] |date= |accessdate=September 21, 2020 }}</ref>
| venue      = [[Bimhuis]], [[Amsterdam]], Netherlands
| studio     =
| genre      = [[Jazz]]
| length     =
| label      = {{Flatlist|
* [[Sunnyside Records|Sunnyside]]
* [[Verve Records|Verve]]
}}
| producer   =
| chronology = [[Miho Hazama]]
| prev_title = [[Time River]]
| prev_year  = 2015
| next_title = [[Dancer in Nowhere]]
| next_year  = 2018
| misc       = {{Extra chronology
| artist     = [[Metropole Orkest]]
| type       = live album
| prev_title = MO x Caro Emerald By Grandmono
| prev_year  = 2017
| title      = The Monk: Live at Bimhuis
| year       = 2018
| next_title = [[Scripted Orkestra]]
| next_year  = 2018
}}
}}
{{Album ratings|rev1=[[DownBeat]]|rev1score={{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="downbeat">{{Cite web|url=https://downbeat.com/reviews/detail/the-monk-live-at-bimhuis1 |title=Reviews Miho Hazama & Metropole Orkest Big Band ''The Monk: Live At Bimhuis'' |website=[[DownBeat]] |date=November 2018 |first=Jeff |last=Potter |accessdate=2020-03-01}}</ref>}}
'''''The Monk: Live at Bimhuis''''' is a live tribute album of [[Miho Hazama]] and [[Metropole Orkest]] Big Band playing [[Thelonious Monk]] which was released in February 2018.<ref name="universal_music_japan" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/monk-live-at-bimhuis-mw0003136202|title=Monk: Live at Bimhuis - Miho Hazama &#124; User Reviews|website=AllMusic}}</ref>
==Background==
2017 was the 100th anniversary year of [[Thelonious Monk]]'s birth. Before the year, Miho hazama proposed to Metropole Orkest to hold concerts to play Thelonious Monk when she visited Metropole in September 2016, and recognized need for reasonable planning after the discussion with the producer. Under the condition of neither relationship with Monk's family nor involvement of American players, she proposed a tribute plan which includes orchestration of originally piano solo tracks and providing opportunity of make possible to compare among different arrangers, [[Bill Holman (musician)|Bill Holman]], [[Oliver Nelson]] and Miho. The plan was approved and concerts were held at four cities in Netherlands.<ref name="universal_music_japan" /> Although arrangements by other arrangers were played at the concerts, they are not included in this album.<ref>{{Cite web |author=Mitsutaka Nagira |url=https://note.com/elis_ragina/n/n9664a6543d86 |title=Interview - 挾間美帆が語るセロニアス・モンクと『THE MONK : LIVE AT BIMHUIS』 |publisher=note |date=2018-02-26 | accessdate=2020-02-08 |language=Japanese |trans-title=Interview - Miho Hazama talks about Thelonious Monk and ''The Monk: Live at Bimhuis''}}</ref>
Regards to tribute jazz album, Metropole Orkest had experience of ''Better Get Hit In Your Soul: A Tribute To the Music of Charles Mingus'' which was recorded in 2009, and released in 2012.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/better-get-hit-in-your-soul-a-tribute-to-the-music-of-charles-mingus-mw0002343530|title=Better Get Hit In Your Soul: A Tribute To the Music of Charles Minguss|website=[[AllMusic]]|accessdate=2020-02-28}}</ref>
==Track listing==
:''All compositions by [[Thelonious Monk]] except as indicated. All arrangements by Miho Hazama.''
#"Thelonious" * – 6:42
#"Ruby, My Dear" * – 8:36
#"Friday the 13th" * – 6:58
#"Hackensack" – 6:50
#"[['Round Midnight (song)|'Round Midnight]]" ([[Bernie Hanighen]], [[Cootie Williams]] and Thelonious Monk) – 7:53
#"Epistrophy" * ([[Kenny Clarke]] and Thelonious Monk) – 7:52
#"Crepuscule with Nellie" – 5:14
: * ''Originally piano solo by Thelonious Monk.''
==Personnel==
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* Miho Hazama – conductor
*Jan Bastiani, Jan Oosting, Louk Boudesteijn – trombone
*Martin van den Berg – bass Trombone
*Martijn de Laat, Nico Schepers, Ray Bruinsma – trumpet
*{{ill|Rik Mol|nl|Rik Mol}} – trumpet, flugelhorn
*Leo Janssen, Marc Scholten, Max Boeree, Paul van der Feen, Sjoerd Dijkhuizen – saxophone, clarinet
*Hans Vroomans – piano
*{{ill|Peter Tiehuis|de|Peter Tiehuis}}  – guitar
*Aram Kersbergen – bass
*{{ill|Marcel Serierse|nl|Marcel Serierse}} – drums
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==See also==
*[[Bill Holman (musician)|Bill Holman]], ''Brilliant Corners: The Music of Thelonious Monk'' ([[JVCKenwood Victor Entertainment|JVC]], 1997)
*[[Thelonious Monk]], ''[[Monk's Blues]]'' ([[Columbia Records|Columbia]], 1968) arranged by [[Oliver Nelson]]
==References==
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