Jazz Articles about Aki Takase/ Han Bennink

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 man Eric Dolphy's tribute, “Hat And Beard," and the pianist's own “Hommage To Thelonious Monk," the entire sixteen tracks percolate a Monk constitution. Chalk ...