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a r t i s t : Steve Lacy & Roswell Rudd
t i t l e : Monk's Dream
d a t e : 1999
l a b e l : Verve France
g e n r e : Jazz
r l s. d a t e : Jun-2003
t r a c k s : 09
b i t r a t e : 192kbps
s i z e : 104,4 MB
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Having played together off and on for over 40 years, Steve Lacy
and Roswell Rudd are hardly strangers to each other. In the
early 1960s, when they led a quartet devoted to Thelonious
Monk's music, they could barely find anyone to record them (the
exception being the Emanem LP School Days, reissued on CD as
Hat Art 6140); today a Monk tribute album is a much more
salable item. But despite its title and the presence of two
Monk compositions, the title work and "Pannonica," that's not
what this is. Rather, it is a kind of newly recorded Lacy
sampler, adding to the Monk tunes: one by Duke Ellington
("Koko"), three Lacy works that have been recorded previously
("The Door," "The Bath," "The Rent"), and three new Lacy
numbers ("A Bright Pearl," "Traces," "Grey Blue"). The
familiarity of the players ù who, in addition to Lacy and Rudd,
include Lacy's regular rhythm section of Jean-Jacques Avenel
and John Bestsch ù is both good news and bad news. Certainly,
they sound comfortable with each other, but also, given their
long association and the mostly familiar material, they don't
seem to have been greatly challenged. They sound most
comfortable with the Monk tunes and take some chances with the
Ellington, but on Lacy's tunes they sometimes stretch out
pointlessly. This is particularly the case on the nearly
12-minute "The Bath," which Lacy wrote for a film about a bum
who gets to take a bath for the first time in years. The song
begins playfully, but it runs on and on until you'd think Rudd
was trying to play every possible note on the trombone. Monk's
Dream is a warm reunion of old friends, but those friends could
have tried a little harder to come up with something fresh.
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01-monk's dream [07:36]
02-the bath [11:42]
03-the rent [10:46]
04-pannonica [09:26]
05-a bright pearl [05:56]
06-traces [08:03]
07-koko [05:12]
08-grey blue [10:07]
09-the door [07:09]
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75:57 min
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