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"How do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways..." could be the title for all the rambling diatribes against jazz offered by my friend D. whenever our conversations turn to the subject of music that I like. (It so happens that I'm quite fond of the music of Satchmo) To start with, D. doesn't like the straw-hatted-clarinet-and-horn-blowing music which he says must have been the classic form of the genre. — He seems to forget that jazz is not confined within New-Orleans or an... MORE
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A pair of Johns Hopkins and government scientists have discovered that when jazz musicians improvise, their brains turn off areas linked to self-censoring and inhibition, and turn on those that let self-expression flow. The joint research, using functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, and musician volunteers from the Johns Hopkins University’s Peabody Institute, sheds light on the creative improvisation that artists and non-artists use in everyday life, the inv... MORE
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Very interesting to see Monk at work here. Tenor saxophonist Charlie Rouse solos very strongly after the melody is established and Monk sculpts a very amusing accompaniment behind him. At 1 minute 45 seconds, the camera work allows you to see the sculptor at work behind Rouse using wide piano intervals and jagged silences as his materials. For the last 90 seconds of Rouse's solo Monk stands up and does a shuffle and stagger dance away from the piano and lets the band s... MORE
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There are friends we come upon in life ... at the start we can't predict how much they will come to mean to us. Chris was brilliant, funny, outspoken, and paved his own way ... and I'm proud to be among those he called 'homebiscuit.' My heart is heavy at your loss, and you'll be dearly missed, my friend. love and peace
I know you loved this one...
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Thelonious Monk's 1964 Monterey Jazz Festival performance is finally being released. Here's the performance of "Rhythm-a-Ning" from the album.
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In 1964, the year this previously unreleased set was recorded, Monk was a certified jazz superstar. Then two years into what would be a ten-year association with Columbia Records, the year began with Monk gracing the cover of the February 28, 1964 issue of TIME Magazine - only the third jazz musician in history to do so (bonus round: name the other two). So all of this is to say Monk was about as flush with mainstream success as he ever would be when his quartet, also feat... MORE
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Thelonious Sphere Monk was born on October 10th 1917 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. By the age of 5 he was uprooted and transplanted in New York City where he began to play piano. By the age of 13, he had won the weekly amateur contest at the Apollo Theater so many times that they barred him from entering again. He was only 19 when he joined the house band of Minton's Playhouse, the Harlem jazz club where he played with Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis. ... MORE
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...Thelonious Monk (above, left, at Minton's in NYC, circa '47) is one of those way-out-there jazz originals who, along with laying down the foundation for hard bop, tended to color his sonic pastiche outside the margins of even the loosely applied fringes of serious jazz (all the while maintaining a sense of humor that he'd sprinkle over everything he did)...in doing so, he's issued a grip of great studio work and sounded even better on live recordings...such is the case ... MORE
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I really can't say much more than that. It's a show from 1965 with Charlie Rouse on Tenor. Go to your OnDemand function on your cable box and find concert.tv under music. I just spent an amazing hour entranced by Mr. Monk.
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I know it's hip hop thursday and all. But man............Monk live from Norway back in 1966.
And this one where he just needs to wipe a little sweat off his forehead. Keeping it cool!!!
