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Monk's Dream and Criss-Cross (Columbia) present Jazz Pianist Thelonious Monk and his quartet in the finest of fettle, reconsidering works from his collection of private standards. (Crepuscule with Nellie, Rhythm-a-ning, Monk's Dream) in performances that prove the immense vitality of his Monkish imagination...
They stare at the bandstand in monkish silence, nodding sagely to the rhythm of drums and bass. Every song is a séance for them, and they listen with every muscle. They are devout, transported, almost catatonic, and when the music stops, there is a little lost moment while their eyes blink and they heave the sigh of the far voyager come home. Then they smile approvingly and say, "Yeah...
...half a mile from the big Donzere-Mondragon electric power dam on the Rhone River, is a dilapidated farm that seems right out of the Middle Ages. The sprawling, tile-roofed stone house has neither hot water nor electricity. The men and women who inhabit it dress in monkish white costumes woven on their own looms, and advertise their faith by wearing wooden crosses on their breasts. They eat simple, vegetarian meals of food grown in the dry, sandy soil that they work with handmade tools. Five times a day they pause in their labor for prayers...
...hear this season, were it not for the fact that My Fair Lady itself is coming later. Memorable songs abound: "Follow Me," sung by Nimue to a failing Merlyn; "C'est Moi," trumpeted by a self-confident Lancelot; and the gloomy "Guinevere," rendered by the ensemble, dressed in subdued, monkish robes and standing in near-darkness...
...first prize in a contest sponsored by the Renault company. Raymond Duncan, the monkish brother of the late dancer Isadora, gave him a one-man show at his Rue de Seine gallery. He was the subject of a TV film, and articles about him began cropping up in Belgium, West Germany, Denmark, Norway and Italy...