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12-16-2005, 04:34 AM
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Music Addict
Join Date: Dec 2005
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Thelonious Monk
best jazz pianist i know. amazing person. My all favorite Jazz musician.
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12-16-2005, 02:18 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Hot-lanta
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.....Danny?!!?!?!?!11
I only hav his greatest hits....... It isnt too bad I listen from time to time |
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12-16-2005, 04:25 PM
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SHAKE!
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: On the A train.
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Not the best pianist I've ever heard (that goes to Art Tatum, who was also BLIND), but damn, the Monk's got style. Definitely one of my favorite jazz musicians, and he could really bring out the best of the people he played with (John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Art Blakey, Max Roach, etc.). "Ruby My Dear" is one of my favorite jazz songs.
 "The Monk is deep." -Dizzy Gillespie |
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12-16-2005, 07:15 PM
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i love his live from france sets, they seem to be the edgiest. Chick Corea < Monk man
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12-20-2005, 10:43 PM
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Chrome Plated Megaphone
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Adelaide, Australia
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thelonious monk is amazing.
if you look at the sheet music of his songs a lot of them are very chromatic e.g. well you needn't but when you listen to them they sound almost bluesy as opposed to chromatic. going up in semitones isnt generally that nice to listen to but monk can do it so that it is totally listenable. does anybody here know of t.j.kirk? they are a band with charlie hunter who cover rasaan roland kirk, james brown and thelonious monk songs exclusively
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08-24-2006, 07:07 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Toronto
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Monk wrote about 70 songs and all are perfect.
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08-24-2006, 10:15 PM
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Mellifluous...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Born in Australia, Living in New Zealand
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I love Thelonious Monk. He's my favourite jazz musician/band. Quite an interesting style of piano.
His greatest hits is great, but his studio albums are good as well. |
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09-15-2006, 09:26 PM
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Everyone Does Everything.
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: I'm back f-ucking or sleeping or something
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He's way up there as far as favorite jazz musicians go. Everything he's put out if perfect. There's no other way to describe it. Every single note just feels so right.
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09-16-2006, 06:53 AM
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Location: Toronto
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I agree, strange thing about him when I first heard him play I thought he could not play well. Then I figured out that he meant to play every note that way. He is very angular. |
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09-16-2006, 07:11 AM
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Music Addict
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Toronto
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There is an amazing documentary movie about Monk called "Straight no Chaser" If you have not seen it do so.
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