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Not a lot of newness here, as Monk's the game, which is no secret, even in the song titles; I kept expecting to hear some crazy-ass honking during the original "Monkish," within which Glasser flirts with modality for only a few bars, while solos by bassist Jeff Campbell and pianist John Nyerges stick to the rules.
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Saxophonists John Coltrane and Hank Mobley and trumpeters Art Farmer and Donald Byrd are among the sidemen on these tracks, across four discs, with Cool Struttin' and Clark's Thelonious Monkish performance on Blue Minor expressing the pungent essence of the hard-bop style.
F&M playlist 2011
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Mr. Marsalis played smartly, flirting with Monkish pianism but ultimately avoiding pastiche.
Jazzfest: Ellis Marsalis Brings the Monk - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Mr. Marsalis played smartly, flirting with Monkish pianism but ultimately avoiding pastiche.
Jazzfest: Ellis Marsalis Brings the Monk - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Mr. Iverson ' s opener, " Mellow B, " is a blues line that ' s vaguely Monkish and imminently memorable, while " Charvez " is a percussive love song by the leader.
From Swing to Bop Will Friedwald 2010
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From a flying All God's Chillun Got Rhythm, in which Harris's Monkish chords and strange time suspensions jar and pull at the familiar theme, to ballads in which he explores arpeggios like somebody running his fingers through water, the album reinforces the sense that this most convivial of jazz pianists is actually in your room.
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Are we, experiencing the re-assertion of the Monkish codifying tendency that was so predominant for so long.?
Archive 2007-10-21 Newmania 2007
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To the Monkish mind the very complexity of it is beautiful.
The New Monks Of Europe Newmania 2007
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Are we, experiencing the re-assertion of the Monkish codifying tendency that was so predominant for so long.?
The New Monks Of Europe Newmania 2007
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To the Monkish mind the very complexity of it is beautiful.
Archive 2007-10-21 Newmania 2007
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