RE: (TV) Jazz Monk

[bedwellm@WellsFargo.COM]

Oh, hell...."Brilliant Corners" is Sunday morning music. My girls love it.
Echo (the 4 year old) even dances to it.

Regards,

Micah 


-----Original Message-----
From: Per Rosén [mailto:per_m_rosen@hotmail.com]
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 4:31 AM
To: tv@obbard.com
Subject: Re: (TV) Jazz Monk


Thanks a lot, Maurice!
I'll try to play Monk Himself and the Ellington-album carefully at home. 
Maybe it works! Brilliant Corners will be something for the headphones, I'm 
afraid.

Per


>From: Maurice Rickard <maurice@mac.com>
>Reply-To: tv@obbard.com
>To: tv@obbard.com
>Subject: Re: (TV) Jazz Monk
>Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 11:09:11 -0500
>
>Per--
>
>Not allowed to play jazz at home?  Man, that's tough.  Glad my wife's a 
>fan...
>
>My personal favorites:
>_Brilliant Corners_: (the title tune is one of my all-time 
>favorites--absolutely essential; everything else on the album is good, too.

>  This was his return to recording originals after two standards albums he 
>did when Riverside picked him up.)
>
>_Thelonious Himself_ is astonishing.  It's all great--don't overlook the 21

>minutes of alternate takes of the solo version of "'Round Midnight."  And 
>there's a thrilling "Monk's Mood" with Coltrane. (breaking the "Monk alone 
>at the piano" feel, it's like wandering out of a fascinating smoky bar into

>a summer evening.)
>
>I'd next recommend the Town Hall concert, which was also released on 
>Riverside, but they don't seem to have it on eMusic.  Breathtaking 
>arrangements for a large horn section.  "Monk's Mood," "Crepuscule with 
>Nellie," and the rousing "Thelonious" really shine.
>
>Other stuff I see on eMusic:
>
>_Misterioso_ has a lot of classic tunes on it: the title track, "Let's Cool

>One",  "In Walked Bud," a full-band "'Round Midnight," and the deeply 
>disturbing "Evidence."
>
>_Monk's Music_ has the set-closer "Epistrophy," a gorgeous snippet of 
>"Abide With Me" for horns (which sounds like what they play for you when 
>you graduate from Thelonious Monk University), and the fantastic 
>"Crepuscule with Nellie." (strangely, you have to download the whole album,

>for some reason)
>
>Basically, anything on Riverside is well worth it.  He wasn't terribly 
>happy on the Prestige label, and it tends to show.  Start in on the first 
>two I've listed, though, and end up hooked.
>
>Hope this helps,
>Maurice
>
>At 10:07 AM +0000 1/17/01, Per RosÈn wrote:
>>E-Music has a lot of Jazz (for example the Fantasy label). I have an 
>>"unlimited" subscription wich means that I can download as much as I want 
>>for 10bucks/month. (You get serious problems, because you never have time 
>>to listen to everything. Even worse, you're may not allowed to play jazz 
>>at home...)
>>
>>http://www.emusic.com/artists/2075/Thelonious_Monk/
>>
>>Can you, Maurice, or anyone else recommend some of the 18 Monk-titles, or 
>>do you think that everything is worth downloading?
>>
>>
>--
>Maurice Rickard
>http://mauricerickard.com/
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