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Jonathan Gee
www.jonathangeetrio.co.uk is my website... ABOUT Jonathan is one the most prolific and imaginative composer-pianists operating today, with a succession of ever-enticing bands and projects with world class line-ups from Europe and the USA. Aside from his own bands with which he has recorded 10 albums, he has also worked closely with Bobby Wellins, Claire Martin and Tim Whitehead, Pharoah Sanders, Mark Murphy and Art Farmer. With Tony Kofi he co-founded the Monk Liberation Front, whose legendary performances of the complete Thelonious Monk catalogue have led to award-winning recordings. He has performed in groups comprised of leading musicians from France, Finland and Italy, and a fantastic trio emerging from the hothouse of the New York jazz scene featuring Joseph Lepore and Nasheet Waits which has packed out Dizzy’s at Lincoln Centre
Plays Monk
By Tony Kofi
Label: The Last Music Company
Released: 2023
Track listing: Side 1: Boo Boo's Birthday; Ugly Beauty; Trinkle Tinkle. Side 2: Ruby My Dear; Brilliant Corners; Comin' On The Hudson; We See. Side 3: Crepuscule With Nellie; Teo; Misterioso. Side 4: Gallop's Gallop; Light Blue; Think Of One; Monk's Mood.
Tony Kofi Quartet: Plays Monk
by Chris May
When it was first released in autumn 2004, Tony Kofi's Plays Monk: All Is Know (as it was then titled) was the saxophonist's first release as leader, a full thirteen years after his emergence with high-profile young Turks the Jazz Warriors. The album went on to win the BBC Jazz Awards Album Of The Year prize. ...
Reimagining The Beatles
Label: Verte
Released: 2021
Track listing: Blackbird; Here There And Everywhere; Starfish; Michelle; Luminescence; And I Love Her; Silver; Come Together; Across The Universe.
Ohisashiburi: Reimagining The Beatles
by Chris May
One might imagine that making an album of Lennon & McCartney covers is as easy as falling off the proverbial log. Not so. For starters, even if the listener has never bought a Beatles record in his or her life, they will have heard the songs countless times and boredom may have set in. More than ...
Tony Kofi: Point Blank
by Chris May
British saxophonist Tony Kofi has made a specialism of heritage projects. Among the best of them is the Monk Liberation Front, a band which Kofi co-founded with pianist Jonathan Gee in 2003 and which performs Thelonious Monk's music. The work of Julian Cannonball Adderley is the focus of another venture. An early spin-off from the Front ...
Dragonfly
By Jonathan Gee
Label: ASC Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: Beyond; Dragonfly; Black Ball; Tortadilla; Cream Of Mandarins;
Yellow Ball; We See; Cicada.
Jonathan Gee: Dragonfly
by Mark Corroto
50 years ago, modern jazz piano trios would barely be recognizable to the majority of their counterparts--except perhaps Bill Evans' trio. Today, cutting-edge jazz trios require interaction between players and expect both drummer and bassist to be more than just disciples. Trio leaders such as Jason Moran, John Escreet, Matthew Shipp all write and perform their ...
Cream Of Mandarins
By Jonathan Gee
Label: Not On Label (Jonathan Dane Self-released)
Released: 2004