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Article: Album Review

Thelonious Monk: Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960

Read "Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960" reviewed by Mark Sullivan


Finding a lost movie soundtrack by composer/pianist Thelonious Monk at this late date seems an improbable event, at the very least. But that is what we have here: previously unreleased performances heard in Roger Vadim's famous 1959 French film Les Liaisons Dangereuses. The official soundtrack album released at the time included only the music by Art ...

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Article: Album Review

Thelonious Monk: Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960

Read "Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


There's a purity and innocence in the music of pianist/composer Thelonious Monk. But a subtle complexity colored his tunes, masked by an enchanting approach-ability. You hear “Bemsha Swing," “Well You Needn't," “In Walked Bud," and the melodies won't leave your head; they soak into your neural circuitry, permanently. Monk emerged in the late forties ...

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Article: Record Label Profile

Sonorama: Putting the Past in the Future

Read "Sonorama: Putting the Past in the Future" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard


It takes a collector to know what a collector wants. Ekkehart Fleischhammer who runs the German reissue label Sonorama has been in the record business since 2004, but he has spent far more time enjoying and searching for music. His own expertise and sense of quality is the foundation for Sonorama Records whose specialty is the ...

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Jazz In Camera

Label: Sonorama
Released: 2012
Track listing: Jazz In Camera - Bande I; Jazz In Camera - Bande II; Jazz In Camera - Bande III; Jazz In Camera - Bande IV; Jazz In Camera - Bande V; Jazz In Camera - Bande VI;

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Besame Mucho

Featuring the music of Barney Wilen
Duration: 9:27

Barney Wilen - tenor sax, Jacky Terasson - piano, Gilles Naturel - bass, Peter Gritz - drums. Japan, 1990.
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Dear Prof. Leary

Label: Promising Music/MPS
Released: 2008
Track listing: The Fool on the Hill; Dear Prof. Leary; Ode to Billie Joe; Dur Dur Dur; Why Do You Keep Me Hanging On; Lonely Woman; Respect.

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Article: Album Review

Barney Wilen and His Amazing Free Rock Band: Dear Prof. Leary

Read "Dear Prof. Leary" reviewed by John Kelman


Any album combining '60s hits like “Ode to Billie Joe" and “Respect" with Ornette Coleman's “Lonely Woman" deserves more than a passing glance. The late French saxophonist Barney Wilen was already thirty-one when he recorded Dear Prof. Leary with His Amazing Free Rock Band in 1968 for the German MPS label. Best-known by then (and, likely, ...

Album

Tilt

Label: Vogue
Released: 1999


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