Friday, May 11, 2018

Dreaming of the Masters


How, I wonder, could I have gone so long through this Friday-night series without posting Monk?  Time to correct that oversight.

A YouTube commenter (sydysydy) captured it perfectly: "Almost hitting the note. Playing around the expected note. Implying the note through discord. Creating a new version of the note with atonal harmonics. Textural splashes. The melody never repeats exactly the same way. Monk is the definition of avant-garde. Half pianist, half painter."

1 comment:

Julia Townsend said...

I also came across that quote on youtube...in fact, I took a screen shot of it, then looked to see who Sydysydy is so that I could credit him/her.