Thelonious Monk & Herbie Nichols - M & N - Reissue (1989)

The most important jazz musicians are the ones who are successful in
creating their own original world of music with its own rules,
logic, and surprises. THELONIOUS MONK, who was criticized by
observers who failed to listen to his music on its own terms,
suffered through a decade of neglect before he was suddenly
acclaimed as a genius; his music had not changed one bit in the
interim. In fact, one of the more remarkable aspects of Monk's music
was that it was fully formed by 1947 and he saw no need to alter his
playing or compositional style in the slightest during the next 25
years.