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Floratone with Bill Frisell & Matt Chamberlain
The album Floratone is a very cool atmospheric album that resulted from a rare free-form jam between guitarist Bill Frisell and drummer Matt Chamberlain. Producers Tucker Martine and Lee Townsend took the raw tracks and applied their creative license to create an album of spacey instrumental grooves. Floratone’s 11 tracks also feature [...]
The Tuesday Portrait: Thierry Henry
For a whole year he was my favorite player in football. I loved his hesitations and would make comparisons to Thelonious Monk while he gathered himself over the ball and hovered over it, probingly, like a hummingbird, knowing exactly when to dart. Untouched by the smallest worry over anyone else's intention, for mentally he was always ten seconds in the future and patient because he was so quick, he would count beats, drag the ball aside as if it were a remote control for moving the defender, t
Thelonious Monk’s Advice - Archived By Steve Lacy | Heck...
Thelonious Monk’s Advice - Archived By Steve Lacy | Heck Of A Guy
Let's Lift The Bandstand!! -- Monk's Advice (1960)
Let's Lift The Bandstand!! -- Monk's Advice (1960) If there's one artist who I can always turn to for inspiration, it would be Thelonious Monk. Everytime I listen to his tunes, I find new pieces, parts, twists, transitive and intrasitive verbs, infractions, derelictions, all in all -- pure genius. I don't know where I found this, but I wanted to share two pages from his journal: While this advice was initially penned for musicians, I think it pertains to any person who creates (i.e., you -
Thelonious Monk’s notes via baitandswitch: og —- My...
Thelonious Monk’s notes via baitandswitch: og —- My Favorites: You’ve got to dig it to dig it, you dig? A note can be as small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your imagination. A genius is the one most like himself. When you’re swinging, swing some more. Always leave them wanting more.
the rain in a-flat major
umbrella wet—the city's possessive feet, waking up and moving forever, so it seems, down through streams of the guttering downtown streets; old jazz tunes fold themselves lazily, crumpled into every relaxed brick of every corner of every venerable building—perhaps thelonious monk, or duke ellington and let's not forget louis armstrong; are the melodies that are falling, that i'm hearing with the ensembles of rain— are the waltzing piano keys that, conveniently, are the sidew
Thelonious Monk's Advice, Archived By Steve Lacy
The Origins Of The Advice From Thelonious Monk The bloggers at Do The Math posted the following about the above documents in Steve Lacy on Monk: In the past couple of days, an extraordinary number of thoughtful people have forwarded the following document to me, often with the suggestion that Thelonious Monk penned it himself … I have confirmed with expert jazz historians; this is Steve Lacy’s work, who played with Monk in 1960. Lacy’s introduction to Thelonious Monk: His Life and Music
Start The Year Off Right With Some Free Drum ‘n’ Bass
Disquiet is starting the year off right, digging up a juicy free drum and bass track, via syncopathicrecordings.com: Perhaps the title to “The Monk Tune” means that the string bass resounding midway through the seven-and-a-half-minute track was lifted from a Thelonious Monk song, but whatever the impetus for the name, [sub]’s effort shows estimable restraint, the pinging drums and sonar blips left more or less to themselves, and the percussion following its own advanced calculus (MP3). It’s a
Monk Notes
Notes from Thelonious Monk circa 1960. Click on the image for a closer view:Some sage advice: "Don't play everything (or everytime), let some things go by..."
"Round Midnight" - Part I
By: Bernard Chazelle I know I should be out there slaying the flame-breathing dragons of evil, but that'll have to wait till Jan 2. I have to deal with a more pressing matter right now, which is to indulge myself with my favorite jazz tune of all time. The most recorded jazz standard and one of the most beautiful, haunting ballads ever composed, Thelonious Monk's Round Midnight is easy to play decently but hard to play right. It took Miles Davis years of hard work to master it, and, till the
