Monk - Jazz Portrait 4/6 - Nice Work If You Can Get It
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@kalpubinc Just happen to be in the mood for some Monk, and your description was quite accurate. I am not a musician, but just a fan. Monk would play with his band members , then his solo would just go off somewhere like you said "in a twilight zone". Just awesome stuff for us to enjoy. Life is good
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hay millares de excelentes maravillosos musicos en todo el planeta
monk es el bach del siglo XX
hermeto pascoal el mozart
beethoven no hubo
(digo, es un decir)
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@ohmphthschwrhu That is a great insight into Monk's mind. Composition wise makes a lot of sense - five notes ad infinitum.
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@kalpubinc a famous monk quote'I DEPEND ON 88'.No matter if you playing a thousand note piano you still dont need but five notes to sound good,pentatonic.all other notes DONT have to sound good ,they just have to make sense within the 5 to 10 critical seconds for which the heart is capable of tolerating and forgiving the ugliness.5 of monks notes sound 'good'.the rest of his notes sound ugly on purpose'Hes keeping the 5 good sounding notes from sounding bad.monotony.renewing the pentatonic
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Absolutely great! All the hundreds of records Monk played, he was ALWAYS good, and usually great. Who else can you say that about? THANKS for sharing!!
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somebody wipe him down! lawd! dat man werkin!
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@kalpubinc You summarized Monk's genius beautifully.
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Monk had many scales of his own that, really, the western piano could not provide to his full satisfaction; he did the best he could with what he had. He heard music in a twitlight zone, in an another world type of dimension. Monk was a god, and his music is immortal.
1 year ago 5
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He actually re-invented Gershwin and re-made a basic nice jazzy Broadway tune into one of the greatest classical pieces that even Gershwin would wished he could have invented. The dissonant chords, the syncopation, the unmelodic melody, the inventiveness of the improvisation, are not "normal"; they only dwell in the heads of the gods; the tonal atonality, the heart breaking stridency have not been heard ever since Monk left this world.
kalpubinc 1 year ago 9
Monkify that standard!!!
DajaWaja 3 years ago 6