Goran Strandberg

Goran Strandberg Nonet: Monks Mood

by Florence Wetzel
March 20, 2013

Twentieth-century jazz offered bountiful gifts that musicians will continue to mine for, well, as long as people play jazz. One gift is pianist Thelonious Monk's compositions, which are surely among the music's most original and appealing; as Past Daily states, you can never get too much Monk in your diet. Another gift is the nonet format on Birth of the Cool (Capitol, 1957); Monk himself had a nonet at one point, but the Birth of the Cool sessions are unique ...