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- From: smehta@kwela.nynexst.com (Sandeep Mehta)
- Subject: Monk "book"
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- Date: 31 Dec 92 14:33:45
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- In John Swenson's liners to Steve Lacy's RAPS (Adelphi) it says that
- at one time Lacy and his group were playing the *entire* Monk "book"
- of 53 compositions and nothing else.
-
- I've always wondered how many compositions Monk wrote. Somehow, 53
- seems like a small number compared to, say, Herbie Nichols whose
- career was significantly shorter. Does anyone have a definitive
- answer to this??
-
- I found some of Swenson's comments to be inaccurate, e.g., one of
- Coltrane's main inspirations to take up soprano was Lacy. In fact,
- and I refer you to Simpkins' bio again, the story goes that Coltrane
- almost stumbled upon the soprano. Apparently, they were returning to
- NYC from a gig and made a pit stop where one of the (unnamed) sidemen
- got left behind by mistake. Coltrane took his case for safekeeping
- but then decided to open it and found a soprano sax inside which he
- started fooling around with. The rest, I guess, is history :-)
-
- /sandeep
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- smehta@nynexst.com
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- "This space of time is organized. We need not fear these
- silences, -- we may love them." -- John Cage, Silences, 1961.
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