Word: accompanistsâ
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Dates: during 1964-1964
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...present accompanists???Rouse on tenor, Butch Warren, 24, on bass, and Ben Riley, 30, on drums?have a good feeling for his music. Rouse is a hard-sound player who knows that his instrument suggests a human cry more than a bird song, and he plays as if he is speaking the truth. Warren's rich, loping bass is well suited to Monk's rhythms if not his harmonic ideals; he is like a pony in pasture who traces his mother's footsteps without stealing her grace. Riley has just joined the band, but he could be the man Monk...
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