Piano - SMP Level 6 (Late Intermediate) Composed by Thelonious Monk. We recommend that you contact your local customs or import office for further information. We do not refund customers who refuse shipments or return items because they do not want to pay customs or import taxes. The person who received the order is responsible for paying all customs or import tax. For all international shipments, we identify the order contents and cost of the order on the custom form, however, we have no control over whether your country will charge customs or import tax when the package arrives. Packages delivered outside the US may incur customs or import taxes. We reserve the right to discontinue or change Budget Air/Ground Shipping at any time.Budget Delivery is not the default shipping option, so customers must choose this option during checkout.Length of delivery depends on the time required for products to move through your country's customs or import tax system.Note: Budget Air/Ground takes a little longer than our other shipping options, but it's a great value if you're not in a rush. It's one aspect of his art in microcosm: a tiny reminder that, for all his looking back, he found new things the piano could do.Enjoy our Budget Air/Ground Shipping - starting as low as $2.99! Simply choose Budget Air/Ground as your shipping method during checkout. In "Reflections," he's very particular to bend one note in the melody every time it comes around. The short note seems to slide into the held one. Monk could seemingly bend notes on piano, by striking two adjacent keys and quickly releasing one. On Thelonious Alone in San Francisco, Monk also plays three of his own classic ballads with minimal improvising, illustrating a few ways of framing the melody and his carefully worked-out disharmony. Monk's biographer, Robin Kelley, connects one new blues here, "Bluehawk," to a record Monk had been given by percussionist Guy Warren from Ghana. And Morton was clunking on adjacent keys like Monk by 1923. In that way, these pieces recall Jelly Roll Morton's 1920s solos, in tunes he'd been writing for decades that sketch the very emergence of jazz, with his expressive piano painting in the details. Other solo jazz pianists like Art Tatum showed off their virtuosity, but Monk solos were more about the compositions, and making the piano hum. There's no gimmickry to it - no showboating. Monk's sound was always chunkier and more deliberate, but they did teach him tricky left-hand stride patterns. Thelonious Monk got part of his training from the old stride pianists who'd dominated New York in the '20s, like James P. It slowed him down a little, but he can surprise listeners who think he always took his time.
He attacked the keys with a peculiar, flat-fingered approach that let every note ring out. That's why both jazz avant-gardists and traditionalists revere him. On one level, Monk was a far-out pianist, with his brittle discords, homemade keyboard technique and unnerving hesitations and silences. Monk did like to dig out old tunes: That same album includes Irving Berlin's "Remember" from 1925, as well as a couple of all-but-forgotten songs, "You Took the Words Right Out of My Heart" and "There's Danger in Your Eyes, Cherie."
The third of his four solo albums, and maybe the most obscure, Thelonious Alone in San Francisco is now back out. The next day, he went into a North Beach auditorium to begin work on a solo album, appropriately titled Thelonious Alone in San Francisco. Monk then traveled alone to San Francisco to play at the Blackhawk nightclub the first night his musicians arrived late, and he had to play two sets with last-minute replacements. In Los Angeles, he played at the Hollywood Bowl, and his wife Nellie was hospitalized with gastrointestinal problems. New York pianist Thelonious Monk spent a month in California in 1959. William Gottlieb/Library of Congress via Flickr Thelonious Monk, photographed at Minton's Playhouse in 1947.