Nick Falivena

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Member Since: 7/23/2004
Total Mixes: 49
Total Feedback: 311

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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:

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Thomas_Mohr
Date: 3/20/2005
Ingenious stuff all around - no matter what Miles said or is supposed to have said or whatever, man. ;)
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Muzag
Date: 3/20/2005
Excellent! Monk's the business; there always seems to be so much humour and wisdom in his playing.
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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.
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McDonald12
Date: 3/21/2005
really great stuff. If you ever want to trade, please drop me a line.
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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....
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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.
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Rob Conroy
Date: 3/21/2005
This looks really great.
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g.a.b. l@bs
Date: 3/21/2005
Fabulous!
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G-Sphere
Date: 3/21/2005
Yes, a wonderful collection here.
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Dom1
Date: 3/21/2005
Yup great stuff Nick!
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Saaf
Date: 3/21/2005
Can't beat eary Sphereman.
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Stippenquop
Date: 3/22/2005
Simply great. I love Friday the 13th especially.
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Salman1
Date: 3/23/2005
Wicked mix.
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FLWB
Date: 3/23/2005
Trying to wade through the multitude of Monk recordings to find definitive versions of compositions is a herculean task. All of the above are great.