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Erica Pomerance: You Used To Think
by Raul d'Gama Rose
You Used To Think is one of those records that defines the late 1960s cry for freedom. Laced with existential angst, the music is a Joycean journey that meanders musically--in a gloriously atonal manner--through myriad idioms, including jazz, folk, and a wet canvas of classical Indian ragas. The glue that binds it all is the eerily ...
Han Bennink: Monk Volume One
by Mark Corroto
Pity the straight man that has to play alongside the comedic drummer Han Bennink. In his 50+ years of music making, no gesture, tap, thump, or strike has gone unnoticed. And while he has covered the music of Thelonious Monk before, never has Monk, as interpreted by Bennink, sounded better.On paper this recording, a ...
Han Bennink: Monk Volume One
by John Kelman
With so many tribute albums to jazz icon Thelonious Monk already made, it's hard to imagine how much more can be added to the pianist's canon without becoming redundant. Perhaps, however, it's not all that surprising that an album of Monk material featuring Dutch wildman/drummer Han Bennink, piano phenom Michiel Borstalp and bassist Ernst Glerum, would ...
Peter Bernstein: Monk
by George Kanzler
How and by whom a piece of music is presented profoundly influences how it's heard. This would seem to be a truism, but it is one often contradicted. Case in point: a band begins playing a Duke Ellington standard and there's recognition and approval from the audience, the “I like Duke" effect. When this happens with ...
Monk
Label: Unknown label
Released: 2008
Track listing: Bemsha Swing; Pannonica; Work; Brilliant Corners; Monk's Mood; Well You Needn't; Let's Cool One; In Walked Bud; Light Blue; Played Twice; Ruby, My Dear; Blues 5 Spot; Reflections.
Monk: A One-Man Band
Monk's latest work Stories & Grooves DVD is now available. Monk tells stories about music and musicians and urban life, as he accompanies himself playing drums, keys, bass pedal-board, melodica and vocals. You have to see it to believe it. The stories are accompanied by some comic drawings that illustrate the stories. The Stories & Grooves ...
MONK
by Larry Koenigsberg
by Laurent de Wilde Marlowe & Company (New York, 1997) This is a biography with the flavor of a novel. Lacking any of the scholarly apparatus customary in a historical work -- no index, footnotes, bibliography, discography, or acknowledgments -- it nevertheless imposes a knowing and occasionally stylish sensibility on its treatment of the ...
Harmony of Odd Numbers
By Monk
Label: CMB Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Thelonious; Blue Boliver Blues; Ugly Beauty; Introspection; Skippy; Monk
Junior Mance: Music of Thelonious Monk
by Riel Lazarus
In November of 2000 aboard a ship adrift on the Atlantic Ocean, reedman Joe Temperley joined pianist Junior Mance's Floating Jazz Festival Trio in what proved to be a perfect setting for a tribute to the music of Thelonious Monk. Like Monk, the waters beneath them were capable of powerful swings and torrents, and also like ...
Monk: Harmony of Odd Numbers
by C. Michael Bailey
San Francisco Bay Area fixtures Chuck Bernstein, Si Perkoff, and Frank Passantino join forces to produce the finest Thelonious Monk recital of the new millennium. Gleefully, this trio has avoided the tried and true Monk classics; so do not expect to hear "’Round Midnight," "Blue Monk," or “Straight, No Chaser." Familiarity with these pieces only helps, ...
