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The Charm (T. S. Monk album)

album by T. S. Monk

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 22, 2025
Entity authorityQ60787635 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Charm is an album by drummer T. S. Monk which was recorded in 1995 and released on the Blue Note label.

Reception

The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow stated "T.S. Monk, by successfully keeping his sextet together as a regularly working outfit for several years, has been able to form a recognizable group sound in the hard bop tradition ... has no weak links and is one of the most consistently satisfying jazz groups from the mid-'90s. Their fine disc is easily recommended".

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The public source identifies “The Charm (T. S. Monk album)” as album by T. S. Monk. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Charm, Monk and album.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1995—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Charm, Monk and album providing the first useful test.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 22, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q60787635. The first chronological checks are 1995.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Charm (T. S. Monk album)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.