Vibraphonists influenced by Thelonious Monk

[Rabshakeh]

The vibraphone has a close relationship as an instrument to the piano, but I can't off the top of my head think of any vibes players who showed a clear relationship to Thelonious Monk's music. Perhaps the high sustained sound of a vibraphone makes Monk's rhythmic concepts less satisfying. 

Any ideas? Idle curiosity, really. 

[Joe]

Milt Jackson is the only vibes player I can think of who recorded with Monk. That's the session that gave us "Misterioso", IIRC.

I would say the version of Bobby Hutcherson who's so integral to Grachan Moncur III's EVOLUTION and Dolphy's OUT TO LUNCH is engaging with Monk's concepts. 

[Rabshakeh]

I don't really hear much Monk in Jackson. You're right that he played with him but I just don't hear much of it having rubbed off.

Hutcherson perhaps a little? But it seems like more of an expansive modal thing to me. 

[mhatta]

When Karl Berger plays with Don Cherry, he uses a lot of dissonance, so he sounds a bit like Monk, but his choice of notes is quite different from Monk’s.

https://youtu.be/Z62wpWSraTU?si=ns11I4Ga1KQea0Bt

[Rooster_Ties]

Teddy Charles, perhaps?

Maybe (especially) that first Prestige Jazz Quartet album with Mal, which happens to include as version of “Friday the 13th” — though even without that Monk tune, I’d still be tempted to suggest that album.

And there’s an angularity to a number of albums with Charles on vibes.

Can’t say that’s enough to qualify as a ‘Monk’ influence specifically — but I’d say they occupy a similar space, at least in my brain.

[Rabshakeh]

Thanks. That angularity is what I am thinking of specifically. 

[Alexander Hawkins]

4 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

The vibraphone has a close relationship as an instrument to the piano, but I can't off the top of my head think of any vibes players who showed a clear relationship to Thelonious Monk's music. Perhaps the high sustained sound of a vibraphone makes Monk's rhythmic concepts less satisfying. 

Any ideas? Idle curiosity, really. 

I guess of course it depends on how we define a 'clear' influence(!), but for a vibraphonist (though this sells him way short - multi-instrumentalist, electronic musician, producer etc.) who knows this music on a really deep level - the amazing Corey Mwamba.