Fred Hersch | Thelonious: Fred Hersch Plays MonkFred Hersch is a big fan of Thelonious Monk. I
Fred Hersch | Thelonious: Fred Hersch Plays MonkFred Hersch is a big fan of Thelonious Monk. In his liner notes for one of his albums, he notes that he almost always closes his concerts with something from the Great American Songbook and then a Monk tune. This album is all solo piano arrangements of Monk, focusing mostly on the more well-known Monk standbys like Round Midnight, In Walked Bud, Evidence, etc., but they’re all tastefully done and often bring a new interpretation. Hersch, not surprisingly, is not quite so angular and jagged as Monk himself was on his own solo albums, but they’re still immediately recognizable as Monk’s signature sound. -- source link
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