[ April 18, 2024 ]
Robert Spencer here with some Monk for you. The picture is not so great. But dig the music, man. This is Thelonious Monk, a true American original, on piano, playing his incandescent classic “Straight, No Chaser,” with the underrated Charlie Rouse on tenor sax.
Steve Lacy, the world’s premier soprano saxophonist and foremost Monk acolyte, said: “Monk’s music has profound humanity, disciplined economy, balanced virility, and exuberant wit.”
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22 Comments
6 years ago
6 years ago
There is something about you Atlas Shrugs …..
6 years ago
One of my all-time jazz favs – have 3 of his LPs, & on tape. ‘Straight…’ is a great tune & yes, Charle is always super!
TY for posting, Pam!!
6 years ago
I feel like I’m in a Speak-easy here tonight. Okay, here’s a good one Martha and I danced to on our honeymoon:
6 years ago
Reply to
Gizmo
Barry Maniow does a great cover of this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVyJqIjRzHA
6 years ago
Reply to
Gizmo
That whole album is good. I am not a Barry Manilow fan, my girlfriend is (ugh!). Nevertheless, he kills it with covers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3_aEHuz-qU
6 years ago
6 years ago
Reply to
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6 years ago
I love and play all sorts of music…search & check out “Red Ridinghood” Etude Tableux No. 6, Opus 39 by Rachmaninoff played by Valentina Lisitsa…totally amazing …I’m trying trying to learn it….
6 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVuP1BjbhAg&list=RDtVuP1BjbhAg&sns=em
Here is Valentina Lisitsa. Then look for El Contrabandista….
6 years ago
Reply to
rachmanpianoplayer
I cannot fault her musicianship. Moreover, at least watching her makes clear the immense struggle in which she engages to perform at that level- I consider that a good thing, as musical performance can, at times , benefit from the acknowledgement of that struggle.
Valentina is not without controversy off-stage. In a nutsheell, check out the “Controversy” section:
6 years ago
Great bass on this -here’s 1 of 2 studio versions Amy did of Round Midnight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32_jWTV41Cw
6 years ago
Anyone got the Tom & Jerry cartoon where in the end they chase each other over a piano and drum (I think it was) and created the most awesome Jazz I ever heard.
After an Internet search, never found the cartoon.
6 years ago
Reply to
Alleged-Comment
Try a YouTube search with the words “tom and jerry piano”. I think the one you are looking for was done in 1953.
6 years ago
Reply to
Sunshine Kid
Thanks. Been there done that. I have NEVER found that episode after doing an extensive internet search.
6 years ago
not a jazz fan ,no way, ok they can make noise, but i seriously can`t call THAT music. give me the blues, PLEASE. or some 40s,50s,60s real music. Waltzing with my Darlin, Chattanooga shoeshine boy,sha-na-na. You know, the kind of music with underlying intellectual tones
6 years ago
Herbie Mann:
