Jazz Articles about Kevin McNeal

Gregory Lewis: Organ Monk Going Home

by Jack Bowers
November 9, 2023

Imagine Thelonious Monk playing not piano but organ. Not easy to visualize, but that is the concept Gregory Lewis wishes to present on Organ Monk Going Home, the “home" in this instance exemplifying not a physical space where one goes to rest and refresh the soul but a metaphorical creation of the mind whose images are wide and dimensions unlimited. Lewis has spent much of his career reshaping Monk's unorthodox pianistic ideas for the organ, a pursuit ...