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Morgenstern, Dan. [Record Review: Thelonious Monk: Underground] Down Beat 35:16 (August 8, 1968) Ugly Beauty, the ballad (a Monk title, oboe to tell it like it truly is (he is par­ isn't it?) is bittersweet, of the lineage of 10th Anniversary ticularly effective on this instrument). Ask Me Now, Ruby My Dear, Panonica He takes to the tenor sax on the perky and Crepescule with Nellie-the reflective, Kongsberg. Brooks keeps the kettles hot Summer .Jazz Clinics nostalgic aspects of love. As always, the Last Chance! and the leader charges forth with a very interpretation brings out the melody in gritty solo. Lawson, a man of talent, solos full contour, and Rouse is tuned in. Within days the first sessions of the with verve. Green Chimneys is my favorite, a riff 1968 Summer Jazz Clinics will begin. Lateef's flute is subtly beautiful on the piece; minor with a major bridge. It re­ Hundreds of musicians and educators longing Stay With Me. Through the minds of Dickie's Dream, the "old" Lester will meet with the best faculty ever technique of overdubbing, he is heard on assembled for a concentrated week of Young classic. Rouse gets off on this. flute and tenor simultaneously on See Line (He, too, so long with Monk, is taken learning jazz, playing jazz, living Woman. Again, the tambourine enhances jazz. There are still openings f~r _all for granted, while little heed is paid to the instruments at each of the five chmcs. this sanctified performance. fact that he has absorbed more about how If it's too late to write, just appear Brother strides in spirited fashion, Lateef Monk's music should be played than any on Sunday at 1 :00 pm at the location weaving urgent patterns. Lateef gives a other saxophonist, including perhaps more nearest you with $110.50 (covers fairly pleasant vocal reading of the blues brilliantly individualistic ones, who ever everything: tuition, insurance, room on You're Somewhere Thinking of Me worked with him.) meals) and your instrument. An au­ with a Go-Down Moses-like theme for dition and theory exam will place After Rouse's fine solo (note how he background, and fingerbells for Far East­ employs the full register of the instrument you in the right band or combo at ern flavor. -Johnson the right arranging class level. Just to create unexpected contrast: sudden don't miss out-these are the only leaps to high notes; sudden barks below) clinics scheduled this year. Monk picks up a phrase the tenor man Thelonious Monk --------- has toyed with and used to end his say, AT 5 UNIVERSITIES UNDERGROUND MONK-Columbia CS 9632: The/onio11s; Ugly Bea11ty; Raise Four; Boo Boo's and works around with it delightfully. * UNIV. OF PORTLAND (Ore.) Birthday; Easy Street; Green Chimneys; In Walked Then there's some finely attuned con­ August 4-1 O, 1968 B11d. Personnel: Charlie Rouse, tenor saxophone trapuntal work between the two. * MILLIKIN UNIV. (Decatur, Ill.) (tracks 2, 4, 6); Monk, piano; Larry Gales, bass; Raise Four is a blues by the trio; only August 11-17, 1968 Ben Riley, drums; Jon Hendricks, vocal (track 7 only). Monk could take such a seemingly sim­ SACRAMENTO STATE COLLEGE (Cal.) * Rating:**** plistic pattern of notes as this line, voice August 11-17, 1968 The total lack of clues notwithstanding, and space it so uniquely, get away with * .UNIV. OF CONNECTICUT (Storrs) this album is a significant addition to Mon­ repeating it to the point of near anguish August 18-24, 1968 kiana, since it contains no less than four in the listener-and yet produce a feeling * UNIV. OF UTAH (Salt Lake City) new pieces by the master, plus his inter­ of release. August 18-24, 1968 pretation of an oldie (Easy Street) he has Boo Boa's Birthday is medium-up and ---------------------------------------- not tackled on record before. pretty, the melody attractively exposed by NATIONAL STAGE BAND CAMPS 8 The liner notes don't tell you that, nor piano and tenor. It reminds me a bit, in Box 221, South Bend, Indiana 46624 mood and shape, of Eronel, but that may Please send full details and application do they point out that tenorist Rouse lays forms without obligation. Educators, Send out on all but three tracks. Instead, they be an idiosyncracy; it's really quite dis­ for special credit offer, ramble on about the ultra-campy cover, tinct. Easy Street seems to Monk's liking, for Nam&-------------- making the joke pointless in the process. Streel _____________ _ Only Monk, a true untouchable, could he plays it almost straight (but with those City _______ State ____ _ survive such treatment with his dignity in­ vo1C1ngs and that phrasing) for two choruses and gets away from it for only 1 Age ___ Instrument _______ _ tact. I Monk occupies a peculiar position in two-thirds of the next. It is a likeable ~----------------------------------------·jazz today. On the one hand, he is revered melody. as a man who never compromised his in­ Jon Hendricks takes most of Bud-his tegrity and yet made it. On the other, lyrics refer to Dizzy, O.P., Byas and Bird, though none put him down, there is a which the hippies might not be able to definite air of taking Monk for granted­ relate to-scatting with feeling. Monk does even of being somewhat bored with him. take a solo-spidery, almost Basie econom­ ("How was Monk?" "Well ... Monk was ical, and a gas. Monk ... you know into his usual The rhythm department is in good thing .... ") hands. While not aboard the Monk space The implication is that Monk's usual ship quite as long as.Rouse, these two men thing is just not very exciting any more. have been at it, and know where it's at. Everybody wants to be excited today, as Gales has nurtured his sound to the point if that were the most needed sensation to where it has grown fat and sleek; un­ Zs,~-GREATVALUE be derived from music (or any art) in fortunately, he doesn't get much oppor­ these particular times. But there are de­ tunity to display his witty solo side. Riley's TODAY'S grees of excitation, even if one grants this time is firm and his touch is right. dubious premise. Columbia has issued a brace of Monk CYMBALSOUND I, for one, find it "exciting" that Monk albums by now. One was with big band; is still Monk; that he goes about distilling the others all quartet, trio, and solo. How From PREMIER deolers throughout the world rather than diluting what is essential to about adding another horn next time? him. It is ironic that a man who is re­ Like Ray Copeland, whom Monk really spected precisely for having made the digs. -Morgenstem 1 1 1 world accept him on his own terms should ,,11111~:1ma;m1111,J!anii'•~u1:1be slighted for maintaining his iconoclasm • with a SpecialMembership Plan ••• in the face of that acceptance. In today's FeaturingJAZZ terminology, hearing Monk is taking a TrudyTHESE PittsBLUES •--------- OF -MINE-Prestige 7538: Also, Popular,Folk, Classical,etc. trip, every time. Organo/ogy: The Ho11se of the Rising Sun; Just No purchaseobligations-No list Us Two_: Eleanor Rigby; Count Nine; Man and pricepurchases. Virtually all labels There has been a rather long stretch Woman; A Whiter Shade of Pale; Teddy Makes during which Monk hasn't come up with Three; These Blues of Mine• What the World and artists available.Choose from Needs Now, ' catalog of over 25,000 albums. more than one or two new pieces per Personnel: Miss Pitts, organ; Pat Martino, Writefor free details..• year, so the present additions. to the canon guitar; Bill Carney, drums. (a quite respectable one, indeed; I'd esti­ Rating:* '·- l. ■ I ~I.JCL IKC'-UIKU CLIJf, mate it at 60-plus tunes) are most wel­ No matter which way you slice it, Trudy S mphonette S uare De I. D, Larchmont. N.Y. 10538 come. Pitts is a bore. She doesn't swing, can't sing, 24 0 DOWN BEAT .
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