Word: thelonius
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...their traditional white-tie tuxes, give a laid-back ’40s and ’50s vibe to all their proceedings. Evan D. Siegel ’07 took full advantage of his rich, full voice to convey a longing and sadness in his performance of the Thelonius Monk jazz classic “Round Midnight,” setting the pace for the entire set. Though obviously well rehearsed and harmonized, for a typical undergraduate familiar with Top 40 music like me, their classic set tended to be less attention grabbing than the Lowkeys?...
...packages his music like a popular rock artist and has the quirky, rumpled good looks of an indie frontman. But it is the music that makes the man. For his latest album, Anything Goes, Mehldau tackles a collection of standards with his accomplished trio. Mehldau ably reinterprets songs by Thelonius Monk and Henry Mancini, his lithe playing superbly set off by the popping rhythm section...
...techno music. The jazz influence is unmistakable in this mix from the opening Medley: “General Science/Ish/Papa LaBas” by Conjure, where we hear the saxophone improvise a haunting melody on a bed of synthetic strings and the piano enter with the syncopated rhythms of Thelonius Monk. As the album progresses, though, there is a clear shift to house music (although the jazz is still a constant influence) mainly in the way that the songs are constructed with an opening chorus, an improvised middle section and return to the chorus at the end. The vocals in many...
DIED. MILT JACKSON, 76, jazz vibraphonist and improviser who co-founded the Modern Jazz Quartet; in New York City. Composer of the Quartet's signature Bags' Groove, Jackson got his start in Dizzy Gillespie's band and recorded with John Coltrane and Thelonius Monk...
...Thelonius Monk, we had Beethoven, we may have some Kurt Weil coming up," Goldberg says...