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The Princeton University Monk / Mingus Ensemble: Sounds from the Free-Thinking

Read "Sounds from the Free-Thinking" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Don’t let the title of this release from Princeton University (or the impressionistic cover art) throw you off–balance or dissuade you from listening. Monk and Mingus were free–thinkers, there’s no doubt of that; but they weren’t so free that they abandoned the basic building blocks of Jazz or any other music — melody, harmony, rhythm, counterpoint ...


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