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Aki Takase/ Han Bennink

Two For Two

By Aki Takase/ Han Bennink

Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Two for Two; My Tokyo; Locomotive; Zankapfel; Knut (dedicated to Yoko Tawada); Baumkuchen; Monochrome; Raise Four; Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?; A Chotto Matte; Hat And Beard; Ohana Han; Rolled Up; Hell Und Dunkel; Hommage to Thelonious Monk (Motive of Pannonica and Ask Me Now); Two For Two.

Aki Takase/ Han Bennink: Two For Two

by Mark Corroto
December 5, 2011

The pairing of these two international jazz musicians--Japanese pianist Aki Takase and Dutch drummer Han Bennink--for an hour's worth of duets yields a worthy tribute to both Thelonious Monk and free jazz. The pair's Two For Two might have been better inscribed as Instant Monk.Although Takase and Bennink only cover two Monk compositions, reed ...