Ask Me Now
- Music
- Thelonious Monk
"Ask Me Now" is a ballad by Thelonious Monk, first recorded in 1951. The Ask Me Now chords and the backing track here can be taken at any tempo and moved to any key.
Who wrote "Ask Me Now"
Thelonious Monk wrote it as an instrumental. He recorded it for Blue Note in 1951, and the track was later collected on Genius of Modern Music, Volume 2.
Recordings that made it a standard
- Thelonious Monk (1951, Blue Note) — the first recording, with Monk's piano stating the melody over its chain of moving chords.
- Thelonious Monk, Solo Monk (1965) — a solo piano version recorded for Columbia, slow and spacious.
Key: Db major · Tempo: 80 bpm
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