Thelonius A twofer in honor of what would have been his 93rd birthday, October 10. You can play piano like that. ————— Related articles Thelonius Monk: Straight No Chaser (uptownflavor.com) Jazz Museum in Harlem Schedule (harlemworldblog.wordpress.com) Music Review: Thelonious Monk – The Definitive Thelonious Monk On Prestige and Riverside (blogcritics.org) Abbey Lincoln, the All-in-One Jazz […]
Jazz Is: 13 – Charles Mingus
“Goodbye Pork Pie Hat” (Theme for Lester Young) From the album Mingus Ah Um, an elegy for Lester Young, who died two months before the recording session. This performance is from the 1975 Montreux Jazz Festival, with Charles Mingus, band leader and bass; Don Pullen, piano; George Adams, tenor saxophone; Gerry Mulligan, baritone saxophone; Benny […]
Jazz Is: 12 – Keith Jarrett. Encore.
from “Keith Jarrett: Last Solo”. Tokyo ’84 Encore. —————
Jazz Is: 11 – Last Tango in Paris
If you were a cineaste living in New York City in 1972, in the fall of that year what you spoke about was the New York Film Festival, Last Tango in Paris, and Pauline Kael’s New Yorker review of the film. Bernardo Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris was presented for the first time on the […]
Jazz Is: 10 – Throw It Away
We lost Abbey Lincoln a few weeks ago. Pagamaestro has put together this lovely photo collage in memoriam, and this song is so appropriate to sending her off. The musical arrangement and performance are so fine and Lincoln’s vocal just stunning. Lincoln imbues her very wise lyric with experience and passion,and maybe a bit of […]