Word: sidemen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Everyone who came to meet his plane wore a fur hat, and the sight was too much for him to bear. "Man, we got to have those!" he told his sidemen, and for fear that the hat stores would be closed before they could get to downtown Helsinki, they fled from the welcome-to-Finland ceremonies as fast as decency permitted. And sure enough, when Thelonious Monk shambled out on the stage of the Kulttuuritalo that night to the spirited applause of 2,500 young Finns, there on his head was a splendid creation in fake lamb's-wool...
...goatee into a sharp black scabbard. His eyes are hooded with an abstract sleepiness, his lips are pursed in a meditative O. His cultists may crowd the room, but when he moves among them, no one risks speaking: he is absorbed in a fragile trance, and his three sidemen play on while he dances alone in the darkness. At the last cry of the saxophone, he dashes to the piano and his hands strike the keys in a cat's pounce. From the first startled chord, his music has the urgency of fire bells...
...Monk?" "Well, me, of course.") Most pleasing of all to Monk is a new quartet led by Soprano Saxophonist Steve Lacy that is dedicated solely to the propagation of Monk's music. In the past Monk has been the only voice of his music; he even has trouble finding sidemen...
MARTIAL SOLAL: AT NEWPORT '63 (RCA Victor). Europe's leading jazzman turns out to be more than his two American sidemen can keep up with in this live festi val album. When they give up the chase and Solal flies free, his ideas are a match for his virtuosity and his imagination grows rich to the point of bursting...
SONNY ROLLINS AND COLEMAN HAWKINS: SONNY MEETS HAWK! (RCA Victor). Rollins is the best of the "hard sound" saxophonists, and Hawkins is the prince of lyrical players on the same instrument. Their encounter is hard on the Hawk, perhaps because the sidemen are Sonny...