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New York Times article by Ben Ratliff - New Monk and Coltrane recordings! | |
New York Times article by Alan Feuer. | |
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There's a new revised index for the Thomas Fitterling book "Thelonious Monk - His Life and Music", prepared by Michael G Cotter, from East Carolina University.
The index is in .pdf (Acrobat) format. You might need to visit the Adobe site before you can read it. | |
 "Now We're Here" another great CD from guitarist Gary Wittner has been released. It features Howard Johnson on tuba and contra-bass clarinet, Jeremy Clemons on drums and Willem von Hombracht on acoustic bass. Most of the tracks are new compositions by Gary, but the CD includes 'Ugly Beauty' and 'Four in One' by Monk. Recorded in March 2003 this is a CD that's well worth looking for. Gary has a web site at www.garywittner.com, and he also gives concerts and clinic presentations on "The Music and Life of Thelonious Monk" | |
 "June 25, 2002 - I'm very sorry to report that Nellie Monk passed today at the Lenox Hill Hospital in New York. She suffered a catastrophic cerebral hemorrhage a few days ago and did not recover." | |
 Yes, it's here - the new Thelonious Records website is open for business.There's lots of information, lots of music - you can order some rare and previously unobtainable performances on CD - as well as T-Shirts and other stuff. This is a great website for Monk fans. Do yourself a favour and visit the Monk Zone at www.monkzone.com | |
| Thelonious Monk, Wynton Marsalis & Andy Summers Standard Time Vol IV and Green Chimneys - A review by Richard Cook  from the New Statesman - June 14, 1999. | |
A recording from Lenore Raphael on the Swingin' Fox label. This critically acclaimed CD has "Eronel" (of course!), "Ask Me Now" and "Reflections" along with 6 other tracks including a great "Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise." Lenore has a website at www.lenoreraphael.com, the website has 'real audio' samples, a bio and reviews of her recordings. Excellent CD, highly recommended. |  |
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"Jazz offers, encourages, celebrates skills of ear, and brain and heart - not to mention fingers - which our classroom-based, book-and score-bound, sometimes assembly-line-style academic training has, by nature, somewhat overridden." - a quote from an article "Misterioso.edu/essay on the true art" by Bruce Samet. Musicians as well as students and teachers of music will find this an engrossing article, complete with detailed notes and references together with relevant transcriptions from Monk recordings of Misterioso.
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  A new website that features Stan Tracey - "a pianist/composer who has listened to Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk and has found his own voice in the process."Finding himself accompanied by Stan Tracey during a season at Ronnie Scott's, Sonny Rollins asked the British music press: "Does anybody here know how good he really is?" He has recorded extensively although his CD's may sometimes be difficult to find - but they really are worth looking for. The website has a great discography - and lots of other information. |
New York Times Obituary from Ben Ratliff.