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Thelonious Himself

By Thelonious Monk

Label: Riverside
Released: 1957
Track listing: April in Paris; Ghost of a Chance; Functional Take 2; Im Gettin Sentimental Over You; I Should Care; Round Midnight; All Alone; Monks Mood featuring John Coltrane Wilbur Ware; April in Paris; I Dont Stand A Ghost of a Chance With You ; Functional; Im Gettin Sentimental Over You; I Should Care; Round Midnight; All Alone; Monks Mood 749; Round Midnight in progress 2159; April in Paris; I Dont Stand A Ghost of a Chance With You ; Functional take 2; Im Gettin Sentimental Over You; I Should Care take 3; Round Midnight; All Alone; Monks Mood false start 58; Monks Mood 753; I Dont Stand A Ghost of a Chance With You ; Functional take 1; I Should Care take 1; I Should Care take 2.

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Article: Interview

John Medeski: Strong as Ever with MMW

Read "John Medeski: Strong as Ever with MMW" reviewed by R.J. DeLuke

by R.J. DeLuke

The Medeski, Martin & Wood band, one that has amassed followers like a snowball rolling down a mountain of wet snow since its emergence on the scene over 18 years ago, is one of those exceptional organizations that doesn't stick to playing what might be expected by its audiences. They don't play it safe, instead choosing ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Medeski, Martin & Wood: Radiolarians - The Evolutionary Set

Read "Medeski, Martin & Wood: Radiolarians - The Evolutionary Set" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

Released over the last year, Medeski, Martin & Wood's three-part Radiolarians series bucked the longstanding and conventional trend of writing > recording > touring. Touring material before documenting it on record isn't exactly new, but few if any artists have done so with such an extensive repertoire--three hours of new material, all taken on the road ...

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Article: Album Review

Bobby Broom: Plays for Monk

Read "Plays for Monk" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki

"In many ways, Monk personifies all that attracted and continues to satisfy me in my love affair with jazz music," said Bobby Broom upon releasing Plays for Monk. “The way that he, the musician, fit into the jazz landscape while at the same time standing out and apart from it; the controlled but unpredictable creative freedom ...

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Article: Album Review

Ike Sturm: JazzMass

Read "JazzMass" reviewed by Woodrow Wilkins

by Woodrow Wilkins

There are people who believe jazz, like the blues, is unholy or “devil's music." However, the spirituality of many jazz artists comes through in their writing, and bassist/composer/arranger Ike Sturm is one of them. Sturm is musical director for the jazz ministry at Saint Peter's Church in Manhattan. The institution has a tradition of ...

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Article: Album Review

Arturo O'Farrill: Risa Negra

Read "Risa Negra" reviewed by J Hunter

by J Hunter

Pianist Arturo O'Farrill describes the music on Risa Negra as “Latin/jazz/funk/classical." By “accepted" standards, that means it won't fit into established musical pigeonholes; the Latin, funk, and jazz contingents won't go for it because of the classical angle, and the classical contingent won't go for it because ... well, there's something other than classical music involved. ...

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Article: Book Review

Jazz

Read "Jazz" reviewed by Eugene Holley, Jr.

by Eugene Holley, Jr.

Jazz Gary Giddins, Scott DeVeaux Hardcover; 704 pages ISBN: 978-0-393-06861-0 W.W.Norton 2009 The only thing harder than playing jazz is writing about it. It is a music that is specific, yet hard to define. It is easy to understand, yet at times hard to comprehend, sometimes ...

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Article: Bailey's Bundles

A Cool World Christmas: Carla Bley, Trio West and Wynton Marsalis

Read "A Cool World Christmas: Carla Bley, Trio West and Wynton Marsalis" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

It is easy to be cynical about holiday music. On the mainstream popular music front, these releases are often nakedly commercial, marketed with a fixed (and very large) target population in mind. And a good many of such recordings are truly bad. In the run up to Christmas 2009, the marketplace is clotted with a legion ...

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Article: Album Review

Seamus Blake: Bellwether

Read "Bellwether" reviewed by Robert Dugan

by Robert Dugan

This is a great period for tenor players, with some of the best in our midst: Chris Potter, Jimmy Greene, Donny McCaslin, Marcus Strickland, and Seamus Blake, among others. Surfacing in the Mingus Big Band during the nineties, Blake's aggressive edginess was impressive in a group which took no prisoners. The tenor saxophonist more than held ...

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Article: Book Review

Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original

Read "Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original" reviewed by Russ Musto

by Russ Musto

Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original Robin D.G. Kelley Free Press ISBN: 0684831902 2009 This is an authoritative tome that pulls aside, without completely lifting, the shroud of mystery that has long surrounded one of the most enigmatic figures in the history of jazz. Exhaustively ...


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