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Steelonious

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2016
Track listing: Epistrophy; Bemsha Swing; “Round Midnight; In Walked Bud; Bye-Ya; I Mean You; Off Minor; Ugly Beauty; Ask Me Now; Straight No Chaser; Reflections; Blue Monk.

Article: Album Review

Mike Neer: Steelonious

Read "Steelonious" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
December 6, 2016

Early in his musical career, pianist and composer Thelonious Monk was ordained the “Hight Priest of Bebop." This sounds more like a disingenuous pronouncement by an overeager period critic than any credible music reportage. Monk's essential musical approach owed more to stride, blues, and swing than to Charlie Parker's and Dizzy Gillespie's bebop. Monk's technical brilliance, ...

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