Eric Reed - The Baddest Monk (2012)
Eric Reed - The Baddest Monk (2012)
MP3 320 kbps CBR | 53:32 min | 119 MB
Genre: Jazz | Label: Savant
MP3 320 kbps CBR | 53:32 min | 119 MB
Genre: Jazz | Label: Savant
Pianist Eric Reed has claimed that Monk's music makes it possible "to travel way out there, if you're willing to go where it can take you." On The Baddest Monk, Reed and his colleagues prove more than willing. The Monk classics recorded here illustrate the breadth of Reed's thought on one of the most idiosyncratic of jazz composers. Reed and his ensemble are able to penetrate to the very core the Monk's writing, dismantle its component parts and reassemble them so that they contain not only the essence of Monk, but that of the players themselves.
Tracklist:
1. Rhythm-A-Ning
2. Epistrophy
3. Green Chimneys
4. Monk's Mood
5. 'round Midnight
6. Evidence
7. Monk Buerre Rouge
8. Bright Mississippi
9. The Baddest Monk
Personnel:
Eric Reed: Piano;
Etienne Charles: Trumpet;
Seamus Blake: TenorSax;
Matt Clohesy: Bass;
Henry Cole: Drums;
Jose James: Vocals on 'round Midnight only.