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Music : Thelonious Alone in San Francisco
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Thelonious Alone in San Francisco by: Thelonious Monk |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0025218623124 Label: Ojc Manufacturer: Ojc Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Ojc Release Date: July 01, 1991 Studio: Ojc Sales Rank: 23339 MPN: 231 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.com essential recording: Thelonious Monk was a brilliant improviser, using his incredible rhythmic sense and his harmonic ingenuity to find new possibilities in his own works or standards while touching on the wellsprings of the blues and early jazz piano styles. Those gifts were never more apparent than in his whimsical and inspired solo performances, like this one from 1959. In addition to the usual fare, Monk could always reach into a treasure trove of pop songs others had forgotten. Here he makes original music out of the ancient and ephemeral "There's Danger in Your Eyes, Cherie," and he manages to do it on two separate takes. --Stuart Broomer Customer Reviews
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 Rating: - A class by himselfThese recordings have a richness that any Monk fan will admire: alone, with no backing musicians, Thelonious takes solo flight on his own tunes as well as some well-chosen standards. Consider the beat movement well underway in San Francisco at the time, with an emphasis on individual expression, and the album takes on classic status: as Orrin Keepnews notes, Monk was in "a predominantly lyrical and introspective mood" during these sessions, undercutting the image of the pianist as a distant and difficult artist. There had been a solo album two years earlier, "Thelonious Himself," more angular and nearly mathematical in approach, but "Alone" is clearly romantic: "Ruby My Dear," a heartbreaking cover of "Everything Happens to Me," ... Read More: Rating: - amazing alonenessThis is essential for any Thelonious fan and especially if you like his solo work. This was recorded, with no fans/concertgoers, in an empty auditorium and what you hear is like getting front row seats, with nobody else attending. Highlights include "There's danger in your eyes, Cherise", and "You took the words right out of my Heart" Buy it for yourself and listen to it alone!!! Rating: - one preferred alonethelonious alone in san francisco is a study in manic "genius"- I dont offer the term genius lightly because I feel it's mere hyperpole for institutional acceptance. but in monk's case genius takes on less obverse meaning (if meaning is to be discerned)-the sort implicitly described by g. bataille in his essay on heterology. Monk's assumed mental illness(otherness) allowed for a sort of brazen(fractured) indifference to virtuousity-he played what he felt even if it meant hitting two or off keys (seemingly by mistake). im astounded by those attempting to approach his music empirically as though it could be somehow (mathematically) duplicated-but as we know mental illness cannot be duplicated-only treated. Rating: - Alone in FriscoThis is my favorite cd by the musical genius with the ultimate 'I'm not as crazy as I look' style. It's simply a terrific combination of Monk originals,such as 'Blue Monk' and standards such as the sorta forgotten ,'There's Danger In Your Eyes' Cherie,'only a genius of his caliber could've come up with. Rating: - EssentialThelonious Sphere Monk - brilliant pianist, quirky composer. His offbeat sense of harmonics and unusual musical sensibility may have gotten him kicked out of the Julliard music school and made his material a tad skewed for the casual listener to follow - now just as much as then - but to those willing to make a little adjustment, it's the reason he's always been such a complete original. He worked chords and combinations out of a piano that no one else ever thought of. The man was brilliant in any context, but I say his solo albums are the best way of hearing an eccentric genius at work. He plays around with ideas and variations like a sculptor with clay: old standards are given a new twist, his own past songs are nudged and prodded into shapes ... Read More: |
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