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Thelonious Monk
Monk s Dream
Bright Mississippi
Bye-Ya
Sweet and Lovely - Thelonious Monk, Arnheim, Gus
Thelonious Sphere Monk was 45 when he began work in 1962 on Monk s Dream, his first recording for a big mainstream label. Thus, the 8 tracks here, a mixture of Monk originals and standards, present the bop pianist at a car.
more »eer peak, documenting music that is both challenging and immediately accessible. Playing with his touring quartet, Monk makes each song his own, finding a typically quirky melody line within the romance of Body and Soul or the swing of Bright Mississippi. Tenor saxman Charles Rouse adds some soothing horn soloing, but it s Monk s bright, intuitive playing that makes this a late bop milestone. Timeless. Steve Appleford
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In 2004, while sifting through a box of files with his son, the pioneering photographer Kwame Brathwaite, who chronicled Black life across seven decades, beginning in the 1950s, pulled out a long-forgotten black-and-white image from a manila envelope. It captured a resplendent Roberta Flack in a flowing chiffon gown, John Lennon’s left arm draped atop her shoulder, his right clutching Yoko Ono, with a “plastic soul”-era David Bowie looking on bemused and the Righteous Brothers thrown in for good measure.
“Baba, where did you shoot this?” Kwame Samori Brathwaite, now 47, known by friends and family as Kwame Jr., asked.
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