Thelonious Monk's Rhythmic Structure by Nick Falivena

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Submit Date: 3/20/2005
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Thelonious Monk's Rhythmic Structure


Artist	Song
Thelonious Monk	In Walked Bud (Discovery! Live at the Five Spot 1958)

Thelonious Monk	Monk's Mood (Genius...Vol 1 1947)

Thelonious Monk	Evidence (Complete Blue Note Recordings 1952)

Thelonious Monk	Introspection (Genius...Vol 1 1947)

Thelonious Monk	Trinkle-Tinkle (Discovery! Live at the Five Spot 1958)

Thelonious Monk	I Mean You (Discovery! Live at the Five Spot 1958)

Thelonious Monk	Four-in -One (Genius...Vol 2 1947)

Thelonious Monk	Skippy (alternate)(Genius...Vol 2 1947)

Thelonious Monk	Ruby, My Dear (Complete Riverside Recordings 1957)

Thelonious Monk	Friday the 13th (Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins 1953)

Thelonious Monk	Jackie-ing (5 by Monk by Five 1959)

Comment:

Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane..Art Blakey and Max Roach..the composer playing his compositions. Allowing that I was not alive to see these songs played when Monk was alive, this is the closest I can get to how he meant them to sound. Coltrane asked to see the sheet music, but Monk preferred to play the melody for him to hear and repeat, not because he didn't have sheet music, but because the rhythmic character of the notes was as important as the pitches.

Feedback:

Thomas_Mohr
Date: 3/20/2005

Ingenious stuff all around - no matter what Miles said or is supposed to have said or whatever, man. ;)

Muzag
Date: 3/20/2005

Excellent! Monk's the business; there always seems to be so much humour and wisdom in his playing.

lostinthejazzmix
Date: 3/20/2005

Just bought a disc today with Roswell Rudd and musicians from Mali playing, among other things, Jackie-ing. You'd probably think it perverted the rhythmic soul of Monk, of course. ; ) Can't go wrong with these choices, although some of my favourites (Bye-ya, Bemsha Swing, Blue Monk and the rhythmically challenging Epistrophy) are inevitably missing.

McDonald12
Date: 3/21/2005

really great stuff. If you ever want to trade, please drop me a line.

hemizen
Date: 3/21/2005

I have been listening to Live At The Five Spot this past week so I'm feeling what you're saying....

SMoss
Date: 3/21/2005

I have the Ken Burn's series disc for Monk, and a few other Monks, but this is clearly one to hear given the mixed live and studio recordings. Let's do a trade.