Kimbrough, Frank: Monk’s Dreams - The Complete Compositions of Thelonious Sphere Monk
Kimbrough, Frank: Monk’s Dreams - The Complete Compositions of Thelonious Sphere Monk
Format: CD
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Artist: Kimbrough, Frank
Label: Sunnyside
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 016728403221
Genre: Jazz
The genius of pianist and composer Thelonious Monk is unassailable. Since his death in 1982, he has become recognized as one of the greatest composers of jazz - and of the wider world of music. The year 2017 was the centennial of Monk's birth, and brought scores of tributes, including a well-received stay of pianist Frank Kimbrough's quartet at the Jazz Standard club in New York City. Like many jazz pianists, Kimbrough found Monk's music a revelation when he first heard it. From the outset of his career, Kimbrough has returned time and again to Monk's compositions. After nearly four decades of study, reflection, and performance, Kimbrough has established a relationship with these pieces and found a way to express himself through the prism of Monk. When the Standard approached Kimbrough to put together a quartet to play Monk's music, he picked the brilliant rhythm section of bassist Rufus Reid and drummer Billy Drummond. His choice for lead horn voice was the multi-instrumentalist Scott Robinson, with whom he has played for many years and in many combinations, most notably with the Maria Schneider Orchestra. After the first set of the October 17th, 2017 performance at the Standard Kimbrough's friend Mait Jones urged that the group record Monk's entire oeuvre, a feat that Kimbrough had never considered. A jazz fan and co-presenter of his own Princeton series JazzNights Jones began a lifelong appreciation of Monk when he heard the master live at the Five Spot in New York City in 1957. Over the next few days, Jones doubled down on his intent to make the project reach fruition, bringing in his friend and fellow jazz head, Dr. Dorothy Lieberman, to help co-produce the effort. The musicians began the intensive work such a project demands. Finally, in April of 2018 Kimbrough led a trio and then the quartet at Jazz at the Kitano, polishing 30 new tunes on the way to the full Monk catalog of 70 pieces.
Tracks:
1.1 Thelonious
1.2 Light Blue
1.3 Played Twice
1.4 Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues-Are
1.5 Ask Me Now
1.6 Humph
1.7 Bright Mississippi
1.8 Reflections
1.9 Bemsha Swing
1.10 Teo
1.11 Blue Sphere
2.1 Crepuscule with Nellie
2.2 Think of One
2.3 52nd St. Theme
2.4 Eronel
2.5 Bluehawk
2.6 Little Rootie Tootie
2.7 Two Timer
2.8 Ruby, My Dear
2.9 Boo Boo's Birthday
2.10 San Francisco Holiday
2.11 Functional
2.12 I Mean You
3.1 Shuffle Boil
3.2 Monk's Dream
3.3 Evidence
3.4 Misterioso
3.5 Four in One
3.6 Brake's Sake
3.7 Pannonica
3.8 Bye-Ya
3.9 North on the Sunset
3.10 Introspection
3.11 We See
3.12 In Walked Bud
4.1 Nutty
4.2 Trinkle Tinkle
4.3 Blues Five Spot
4.4 Round Midnight
4.5 Jackie-Ing
4.6 Well You Needn't
4.7 Sixteen
4.8 Locomotive
4.9 Gallop's Gallop
4.10 Children's Song
4.11 Blue Monk
4.12 Friday the 13th
5.1 Criss Cross
5.2 Raise Four
5.3 Let's Call This
5.4 Who Knows
5.5 A Merrier Christmas
5.6 Stuffy Turkey
5.7 Monk's Point
5.8 Work
5.9 Brilliant Corners
5.10 Off Minor
5.11 Hackensack
5.12 Oska T
6.1 Let's Cool One
6.2 Hornin' in
6.3 Coming on the Hudson
6.4 Straight No Chaser
6.5 Monk's Mood
6.6 Green Chimneys
6.7 Rhythm-A-Ning
6.8 Ugly Beauty
6.9 Skippy
6.10 Something in Blue
6.11 Epistrophy
Audio Sample:
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