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Caleb Wheeler Curtis: The True Story of Bears and the Invention of the Battery (Deluxe Edition)
by Paul Rauch
Caleb Wheeler Curtis is one of the more daring musicians in jazz today, not only in his approach to playing the saxophone, but in his fearless dedication to his own musical conceptions, expressed clearly in his original compositions. That daring and dedication can be equally attributed to many of the shakers and movers of modern jazz, ...
MONK! Thelonious, Pannonica, and the Friendship Behind a Musical Revolution
by William H. Snyder
Introduction A butterfly met a monk in 1954. In the wake of an almost 30 year friendship they left behind some of the best music of the 20th century—Thelonious Monk the creator, Pannonica de Koenigswarter an enabler. The story of their friendship has been told before, but never quite in this way. Youssef Daoudi is the ...
SPHERES at Nublu 151
by Peter Jurew
SPHERES Nublu 151 New York, NY July 8 and August 6, 2019 SPHERES is a jazz collective recently started by keyboardist Jamie Saft and electric guitarist Chuck Hammer playing monthly gigs at Nublu, a loft-club showcase for new music in New York City's East Village. Taking inspiration as well as its ...
Thelonious Sphere Monk
By Tim Conley
Label: World Galaxy Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: Misterioso (Reprise); Evidence (feat. Jonah Levine, Dan Rosenboom, and Gavin Templeton); Bemsha
Swing; Ask Me Now (feat. Brian Marsella); Well You Needn't (feat. Chris Speed); Epistrophy (feat. Dan
Rosenboom and Gavin Templeton); 'Round Midnight (feat. Brian Marsella); Blue Monk (feat. Jason
Fraticelli); Oska T; Nutty (feat. Makaya McCraven, Dan Rosenboom and Gavin Templeton); Straight No
Chaser (feat. Brian Marsella); Friday the 13th; Let's Cool One (feat. Makaya McCraven and Jonah
Levine); Pannonica; Trinkle Tinkle; Misterioso.
Tim Conley: Thelonious Sphere Monk
by Kevin Press
Jazz anniversaries are always a bit underwhelming. They come and go, their significance trumpeted in earnest Facebook posts. At the end of the day though, the artists we honor remain underappreciated by casual music listeners. The 100th anniversary of Thelonious Monk's birth date last October is a case in point. His contribution to American ...
Who Needs Monk?
by Patrick Burnette
2017 is Thelonious Monk's hundredth anniversary year and as good a time as any to ask whether he has anything to teach young, ambitious, up-and-coming jazz musicians today. Monk's recordings still nurture and entertain countless jazz fans, and the clarity and directness of his conception makes him a wonderful “introductory" artist for newbies. Gigging ...
North Coast Brewing Up Some Monk
by Mark Corroto
In 1931, industrialist John D. Rockefeller, Jr. donated two million dollars to the Save-The-Redwoods League to purchase some 10,000 acres of virgin redwood forests in Northern California from logging companies. These companies had already cut nearly 90% of the world's tallest trees, some of these redwood trees had stood on the coast of California since the ...
