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...Back” and “Not About Love”—with the Roots’ drummer Ahmir “?uestlove” Thompson. This collaboration adds a unique funk which brings new depth to Apple’s heavy piano rifts...
...usual, Monk’s signature dissonant chords, rapid-fire runs down the piano and flat-hand technique are all there. But this time around, he is not simply going through the motions. Every note is important, and he forces the audience to listen to every move he makes. The notes themselves are often secondary to the silences, the stutters, the phrases, and everything else that connects one pitch to another...
Sometimes the chords sound a little off; needless to say, they are supposed to sound that way, and every time you think you hear a conventional pattern of voice-leading in his accompaniment, he abandons it and plays a perfectly timed major seventh at the top of the piano and throws you off balance. This is not to say that Monk’s playing is haphazard or cacophonous. Rather, it has its own unique beauty that cannot be reduced to a series of dehumanized chord progressions and riffs...
...with her to the bar where she works. While she flirts with customers, making him "feel weird," Shane drinks "flat cokes" and eats "smoke-flavored pretzels." Such details become a hallmark of North Country, bringing scenes alive. One sad and telling sequence finds Shane delighted by an old piano left in a house into which his family moves. "But the music didn't last," he writes over a frame of his father smashing the instrument. "To make more room, they dismantled it into scrap...
...milling about in your dining hall or talking in a section. He looked like the last person you’d expect to jump on a couch on national television, screaming Katie Holmes’ praises. We found out that we both like Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto. We found out that we have many mutual friends, one of whom told me to speak with Jimmy after I went to the Church...