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Miles Okazaki's Monkathon: The Complete Thelonious Monk–Live
MO: Yeah, the record we did as a duo over COVID was still my favorite sound that I've ever got on record. The guitar, the tone of the guitar, that was Mike Marciano recording that. There's something special about what he does with the microphones.
AAJ: We really appreciate you taking the time to talk with us. Do you ever leave an interview wishing someone had asked you something that you never got around to? Is there a question you're dying to answer that no one asked or that we didn't ask?
MO: Not really. I mean I think I'm more of question asker than question answerer. In my mind, everything I'm doing is preparation for something that I'd like to write. But then the things that I write are very limited—the things you make can only rise to the level of what you can sort of discover about yourself. So, there's a spirit of inquiry the creative process, curiosity. You study these people that did it at the highest level and then you try to emulate some aspect of how they got from point A to point B. You try to understand how people could make such marvelous things. You know, Monk built a whole world we can hang out in. I'm happy to make a house somewhere in there and keep playing this guitar.
AAJ: Well, fantastic. Thank you for your time and hopefully we'll see you on the road someday soon.
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