Thursday, March 18th
alone
Thelonious Monk (1917-1982, piano), “‘Round Midnight” (T. Monk), 1954
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2021
Monday, February 22nd
never enough
Thelonious Monk Quartet (TM, piano, compositions; Charlie Rouse, tenor saxophone; Butch Warren, bass; Frankie Dunlop, drums), live, France (Amiens), 1966*
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*0:00: Blue Monk
02:10: Crepuscule With Nellie
14:44: Rhythm-A-Ning
25:31: Hackensack
36:08: Epistrophy
38:20: Evidence
51:51: I’m Getting Sentimental Over You (G. Bassman, N. Washington)
1:08:18: Round Midnight
1:13:45: Epistrophy
2021
Wednesday, February 17th
two takes
“Evidence” (T. Monk)
Joel Ross Quartet (JR, vibraphone; Immanuel Wilkins, alto saxophone; Rashaan Carter, bass; Marcus Gilmore, drums), live, New York, 1/17/21
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Thelonious Monk Quartet (TM, piano; Charlie Rouse, tenor saxophone; Butch Warren, bass; Frankie Dunlop, drums), live, Japan, 1963
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art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago
Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988), Boy and Dog in Johnnypump, 1982 (detail)
2020
Monday, December 28th
Why not begin the last week of a dark year with sounds of joy?
Paul Motian Trio (PM, drums; Joe Lovano, tenor saxophone; Bill Frisell, guitar), “Misterioso” (T. Monk), live, New York (Village Vanguard), 2005
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2020
Thursday, December 17th
two takes
“Coming on the Hudson” (T. Monk)
Thelonious Monk (piano), live (studio), Paris, 1969
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Thelonious Monk Quartet (TM, piano; Johnny Griffin, tenor saxophone; Ahmed Abdul-Malik, bass; Roy Haynes, drums), live, New York, 1958
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2020
Tuesday, December 15th
sounds of Chicago
Little Rootie Tootie (Juli Wood, tenor saxophone; Dustin Laurenzi, tenor saxophone; Katie Ernst, bass; Greg Artry, drums) playing Thelonious Monk, live (performance begins at 13:00), Chicago (Constellation), 12/12/20
MVP?
The drummer (Greg Artry): he lifts everybody.
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reading table
farewell! farewell!
hands waving
in the mist—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue
2020
Wednesday, November 11th
two takes
“Crepuscule with Nellie” (T. Monk)
Susan Alcorn (pedal steel guitar), live, Baltimore, 11/6/20
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Thelonious Monk (piano), live, Paris, 1969
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2020
Wednesday, October 21st
more
Thelonious Monk Quartet (TM, piano; Charlie Rouse, tenor saxophone; Butch Warren, bass; Frankie Dunlop, drums), “Evidence” (T. Monk), live, Japan, 1963
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2020
Friday, October 16th
two takes
Thelonious Monk (1917-1982), “Well You Needn’t”
Thelonious Monk Quartet (TM, piano; Charlie Rouse, tenor saxophone; Larry Gales, bass; Ben Riley, drums), live, 1965
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Kenny Barron Quintet (KB, piano; Riley Mulherkar, trumpet; Marcus Strickland, tenor saxophone; Kiyoshi Kitagawa, bass; Johnathan Blake, drums), live, Ukraine (Lviv), 2019
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2020
Monday, October 12th
Why not begin the week with two minutes of genius?
Thelonious Monk (1917-1982, piano), “Epistrophy” (T. Monk), live (excerpt)
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