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Monk on Viola
Label: Evil Rabbit Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Evidence; Round Midnight; Locomotive; Boo Boo's Birthday; Four in One; Humph; Ask Me Now; Trinkle Tinkle; Crepuscule with Nellie.
Karl Ackermann's Best Creative Music Of 2023
by Karl Ackermann
2023 was an exceptional year for pushing envelopes. The music took leaps backward and forwards in time, espousing social consciousness while embracing fundamentals laid down by the likes of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington. What distinguishes this year from the pre-pandemic era is the palpable feeling that artists vented in the form of fresh enthusiasm that ...
George Dumitriu: Monk on Viola
by Karl Ackermann
In an NPR interview, avant-garde composer Volker Bertelmann--who wrote the soundtrack All Quiet on the Western Front (Netflix, 2022)--talked about re-imagining music, saying: “You don't have to paint the river to express something about the river." That attitude applies to George Dumitriu's Monk on Viola, an unusually inventive reading of Thelonious Monk's work. The Romanian multi-instrumentalist ...
