My teacher Don has perfect pitch and he transcribed them.
Charlie Rouse and the bass player essentially ignored monk while
they were soloing.
>Does anyone have any references of some analysis of Monk's style? I
>haven't really seen anything around, but there must be something.
>I'd like to get a better idea because most of the time when I hear others
>play Monk tunes they sound kind of bland. It could be a style thing
>or maybe they aren't playing with the sheer exuberance and joy that
>Monk projected.
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>Karl Helmer
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>p.s. I was talking to my wife (a classical pianist) about tapping out
>the time with ones's foot and she said that she had been taught Never
>Never to tap since the foot should be free for the pedals. So I played
>some clips of Monk playing from "Straight, No Chaser" for her!
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Yes, my classical teacher told me that too.
However, classical music is not so syncopated as jazz (in general).
If you don't tap it's really easy to turn the time around.
I mean there are alot of figures coming in an eighth note early and
if you are not tapping that, syncopated figure is liable to end up
on 1 instead of say the and of 4.
Some jazz players tap, some don't.
As long as you can keep the time, it doesnt matter I guess.
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Reed Kotler
reed@justjazz.com
http://www.justjazz.com