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Refractions

Label: Jazz Dimensions
Released: 2020
Track listing: Ugly Beauty; Hackensack; Light Blue; Reflections; Let's Cool One; Monk's Mood; Straight, No Chaser.

John Bacon / Michael McNeill / Danny Ziemann: Refractions

by Nicholas F. Mondello
May 16, 2020

The Thelonious Monk canon has proved to be fertile ground for jazz musicians' explorations. The reasons range from a sincere and deep appreciation of Monk's melodic and harmonic approaches to a sort of a quirky fascination with the eccentricity of some of Monk's off-center sounds. Pianist Michael McNeill's trio effort, Refractions, is less a hagiography of ...