Time: 49:36
Size: 113.5 MB
Styles: Contemporary jazz
Year: 2017
Art: Front
[4:25] 1. Misterioso
[4:46] 2. Round Midnight
[4:13] 3. Monk's Mood
[3:19] 4. Thelonious
[4:00] 5. Pannonica
[3:13] 6. Tune For T
[3:37] 7. Monk's Mix
[4:15] 8. Four In One
[5:21] 9. Reflections
[4:34] 10. Coming On The Hudson
[4:48] 11. Locomotive
[2:59] 12. Friday The 13th
Double Bass – Jerome Regard; Drums – Donald Kontomanou; Piano – Laurent De Wilde.
Laurent de Wilde celebrates the centenary of the birth of pianist and composer Thelonious Monk with the album "New Monk Trio". It has been twenty years since Laurent de Wilde published the biography of Thelonious Monk, a reference book followed a few years later by a documentary directed for Arte. Since then, everyone has been waiting for this disco tribute celebrating one of the greatest and most mysterious creators of American music. With a lot of humility, Laurent de Wilde had already taken up some of his master's themes during his musical explorations, from Off Minor and Jackie-ing in acoustics to Shuffle Boil and Epistrophy in electronics. The pianist will have waited for the centennial year of the birth of "Sphere" to appropriate the legacy of Monk on the album New Monk Trio released on October 20 on the label Gazebo.
After having spoken with the pianist Ray Lema on the album Riddles, Laurent de Wilde returns to his ideal formation, the trio, surrounded by two long-time accomplices; bassist Jérôme Regard and drummer Donald Kontomanou. Of course impossible to imitate the mysterious and unique sound of Monk, the trio reinvents, recomposes and rearranges the great themes of the master, Misterioso, 'Round Midnight, Pannonica, Monk's Mood ... Modifications of the original tempo, alterations of forms, bursting harmonies, bringing together several melodies in one piece, only a title of Monk remains untouched here, Reflections. As an ultimate tribute, Laurent de Wilde offers us Tune for T, a superb original composition that he performs in solo piano. (Translated from French.)
Laurent de Wilde celebrates the centenary of the birth of pianist and composer Thelonious Monk with the album "New Monk Trio". It has been twenty years since Laurent de Wilde published the biography of Thelonious Monk, a reference book followed a few years later by a documentary directed for Arte. Since then, everyone has been waiting for this disco tribute celebrating one of the greatest and most mysterious creators of American music. With a lot of humility, Laurent de Wilde had already taken up some of his master's themes during his musical explorations, from Off Minor and Jackie-ing in acoustics to Shuffle Boil and Epistrophy in electronics. The pianist will have waited for the centennial year of the birth of "Sphere" to appropriate the legacy of Monk on the album New Monk Trio released on October 20 on the label Gazebo.
After having spoken with the pianist Ray Lema on the album Riddles, Laurent de Wilde returns to his ideal formation, the trio, surrounded by two long-time accomplices; bassist Jérôme Regard and drummer Donald Kontomanou. Of course impossible to imitate the mysterious and unique sound of Monk, the trio reinvents, recomposes and rearranges the great themes of the master, Misterioso, 'Round Midnight, Pannonica, Monk's Mood ... Modifications of the original tempo, alterations of forms, bursting harmonies, bringing together several melodies in one piece, only a title of Monk remains untouched here, Reflections. As an ultimate tribute, Laurent de Wilde offers us Tune for T, a superb original composition that he performs in solo piano. (Translated from French.)
New Monk Trio
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