Thelonious: Fred Hersch Plays Monk

Editorial Reviews
Jazz Times
[Thelonius] Monk had a unique but relentless swing and was one of the great masters of solo construction. Hersch doesn't try to swing the tunes but takes a more intellectually distanced approach to the music, which is always interesting but sometimes no more than that.... Hersch manages to make us hear new possibilities for these compositions, no mean feat, and shows himself to be an intelligent and gutsy musician.

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Thelonious: Fred Hersch Plays Monk
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Hirsch gets Monk.
  • Excellent tribute
  • Mo Better Monk
 Thelonious: Fred Hersch Plays Monk
Fred Hersch
Manufacturer: Nonesuch
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000005J4R
Release Date: 1998-01-13

Tracks:

  1. 'Round Midnight
  2. In Walked Bud
  3. Crepuscule With Nellie/Reflections
  4. Think Of One
  5. Ask Me Now
  6. Evidence
  7. Five Views Of Misterioso
  8. Let's Cool One
  9. Bemsha Swing
  10. Light Blue/Pannonica
  11. I Mean You
  12. 'Round Midnight (Reprise)

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Hirsch gets Monk........2007-03-19

Hirsch really GETS Monk! Beautiful, simple interpretations that I think Monk would have approved and then some. I loved Hirsch best when he went to the heart of a piece...without the tricky embellishments of some of his later work. He was able to touch essences.

5 out of 5 stars Excellent tribute.......2006-02-04

I heard Fred hersch back in 1997 in New England Conservatory when I was music student at Berklee College, he is an incredible piano player at his best in the piano solo format, his harmonic thinking is beyond the scope, also the way he makes the music flows is incredible. If you like more introspective type of playing this CD is for you. Listen also his CD Live at Maybeck

5 out of 5 stars Mo Better Monk.......2000-02-03

If I told you these interpretations sounded like a great concert pianist playing Debussy, would you please also remember that I think Monk would have loved every second? There's very little of the dance on this disc, but there is plenty of the rhythmic dialogue between sound and silence that Monk mined so richly. Hersch's touch creates breathtaking sounds, and his re-thinking of open spaces (never has Misterioso sounded so enigmatic) owes its debt to the master while touching new territory as well. This, along with Steve Lacy's, Bill Holman's, and Bud Powell's tributes, makes my list of essential Monk cover discs.

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