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Saturday, March 15, 2008
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  • Thelonius Monk and Charles Mingus
    Thelonius Monk and Charles Mingus

    Mingus and Monk

    Explore the music Charles Mingus and Thelonious Monk, New Sounds-style. From Cuban percussionist Anga to the Massachusetts big band Either/Orchestra, from ex-Police guitarist Andy Summers to avant-garde composer George Crumb, the echoes of Monk and Mingus can be heard in a wide variety of new settings. We'll sample a few of the more unusual renditions of their classic tunes for this New Sounds program.

PROGRAM # 2526, “Reinventing Monk & Mingus” (First aired on 3/23/06)

ARTIST(S)

RECORDING

CUT(S)

SOURCE

Thelonious Monk

Genius of Modern music, Vol. 2

Straight No Chaser [1:00]

Blue Note #81511 ** www.bluenote.com*

Roman Nowka’s Hot 3

Do Da Monk

In Walked Bud [5:00]

AltriSuoni #149 www.altrisuoni.com

Gianluca Petrella

Indigo 4

Trinkle, Tinkle [4:00]

Blue Note #47665**
www.bluenote.com*

Andy Summers

New Sounds Live, New York Guitar Festival Marathon, 1/20/02, 92nd street Y

Opus 3 [5:00]

This performance not commercially available, but the track appears on “Peggy’s Blue Skylight,” BMG International # 63679, available at Amazon.com*

Elvis Costello & The Metropole Orkest

My Flame Burns Blue

Hora Decubitus [5:30]

Deutsche Grammophon # 477 5961, available at Amazon.com*, www.iclassics.com or download from i-Tunes

Either/Orchestra

Radium

Moanin [8:00]

Accurate #3232 www.accuraterecords.com*

Mahavishnu John McLaughlin

My Goals Beyond

Goodbye Pork Pie Hat [3:30]

Rykodisc #10051 www.rykodisc.com

Paul Motian Band

Garden of Eden

Goodbye Pork-Pie Hat [5:00]

ECM #1917 www.ecmrecords.com*

Anga

Echu Mingua

Round Midnight [2:00]

Nonesuch/World Circuit #WC 071 ** www.nonesuch.com*

George Crumb

Complete Crumb Edition, Vol. 9

Eine Kleine mitternacht Musik – Blues In The Night [3:00]

Bridge #9170 www.bridgerecords.com*

Various artists

That’s The Way I Feel Now – A Tribute To Thelonious Monk

Sharon Freeman: Monk’s Mood [3:00]

A & M #SP – 6600. Out of print LP.

Comments

  • [1] helene silverman from brooklyn March 15, 2008 - 11:52PM

    absolutely one of the best shows ever. I could listen to this show non-stop every day.

    thanks man.

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Nico Muhly (www.myspace.com/muhly)

Twitchy Renaissance-Infused Minimalism

New Sounds

From the New Sounds Live concerts at Merkin Hall, Nico Muhly presents a series of new electroacoustic ensemble works, combining “twitchy Minimalism” and Renaissance polyphony. Hear brand-new works from "Mothertongue," along with other works, recorded live.

Robert Moran

In Robert Moran's Kitchen

New Sounds

From October 30, 1989, the infamous "cooking show" with composer/raconteur Robert Moran. Recorded while cooking an Indian dinner in John Schaefer's kitchen, for reasons still not entirely clear. Along the way, we hear an "acoustic" version of Cage's 0:00 - for amplification of chopping vegetables and blender. And don't miss the teary conversation as onions are chopped. View the the recipes.

Michael Hedges and Michael Manring

New Sounds

The incredibly gifted and astonishingly original guitarist Michael Hedges left the planet much too soon in 1997. Avant-folk and ever-entertaining, Hedges made brilliant music with alternate tunings, harmonics and was known for striking the guitar’s body and strings with his fingers, palms and knuckles. His close friend and sometime collaborator, electric bass virtuoso Michael Manring, was a genre-bender, before music writers ever discovered that hyphenated term. He started out in the New Age bins, but moved all over with various projects, including the very first New Age-death-metal-jazz-funk-fusion record, among other things, with his “hyperbass”, (a fretless instrument which makes re-tuning mid-piece a little easier). On this October 10, 1987 edition of New Sounds, the two artists visited and played at the WNYC performance studios.

Duke Ellington - www.dukeellington.com

Caravan Variations

New Sounds

Like camels slogging through the sand, the exotic strains of “Caravan,” by Duke Ellington and his sometime trombonist Juan Tizol (with rarely heard lyrics by Irving Mills), have been played loose, fast, swinging, and/or slow by just about everyone. For this New Sounds program, it’s another of the occasional series of programs of Theme and Variations, where the premise is simple: take a single piece of music and explore what a number of musicians have done with it, through arrangements, deconstructions, and revisions of the original theme. This time around, it’s Duke Ellington’s “Caravan.” Listen to arrangements by Romania’s Fanfare Ciocarlia, Hungary’s Kalman Balogh & The Gipsy Cimbalom Band, the California Guitar Trio, the ska group Hepcat, banjoman Bela Fleck, Lebanese composer Rabih Abou-Khalil, and trumpeter/composer Jon Hassell, among others.

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