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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. 

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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. 

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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. 

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