3/8/2024 0 Comments Blue monk tablature![]() ![]() I thought that this arrangement would have been great for that particular artist, but, like so many things, the recording just never happened! So, this just seemed like the perfect moment to resurrect it, and bring it to life. ![]() As it often happens, someone calls you, and asks if you have an arrangement that you might want to record on their particular album. The arrangement for this new Latin-style interpretation of "Hackensack" was actually something that I had around the apartment for some years. Since that first medley, I have gone on to record 7 other Monk tunes on my albums, and most recently "Bye-ya" appeared on "PARTING SHOT." Now, " Hackensack" appears on " SUBTEXT." I had actually recorded a version of "Hackensack" once before on " HEADLINE" with Ron Carter and Al Foster in 1992. The result of that work, done while sitting around my apartment alone, was the album " EVIDENCE"(Arista/Novus) which included a 9-song " Thelonious Monk Medley." This album helped me to refocus my energies, and my commitment to all the music that had inspired me to pursue a life in Jazz when I began. It was during the mid-'60s, when I was studying music and trying to learn something about life at U.C.L.A., that I really began to fall in love with the compositions of Monk and his piano style, even though, by then, he had already been around for a long, LONG time! However, it wasn't until the Jazz-Rock Fusion Era came to a crushing halt for me as 1980 dawned that I began to explore interpreting Monk on the guitar with greater seriousness. And, of course, there were not too many young people listening to Jazz in those days with Rock 'n' Roll on the ascent. As a teenager, growing-up in West Los Angeles, California, at that time, I had never heard a first name like Thelonious, nor a last name like Monk. Over the many years, few things have brought me more musical enjoyment than interpreting the music of Thelonious Monk. ![]()
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