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Thelonious Monk: Blue Monk (Oslo, April 1966)
Um clipe do video "Monk in Oslo".
Thelonious Monk - piano. Charlie Rouse - tenor. Larry Gales - bass. Ben Riley - drums.
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This Monk tune is so melodically and harmonically sophisticated and interesting. O.K., I should have used a metronome, but I uploaded this video anyway. Part of the time I play "outside" or against the chord structure. I try not to go so far out that I get lonely, which I tend to do when I play for myself. Besides Monk, Bill Evans playing this is my favorite.
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This is a semi-improvised take on Thelonious Monk's Ruby, My Dear, loosely based on his own version, as well as Bud Powell's. It's performed on a Roland FP-3, with the sound recorded using Audacity, and the video edited with Avidemux, under GNU/Linux.
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Saxophonist Sam Newsome, formerly with Terence Blanchard and Donald Byrd, showcasing multiphonics and various extended techniques. These Thelonious Monk compositions were recorded on "Monk Abstractions."