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Thursday, 29 December 2005 11:09 |
#87
well you needn t
for art blakey
i played drums
on the monk's music album
for riverside,
art blakey says, where monk
expanded his group
to a septet,
with both coleman hawkins
& john coltrane
on tenor. naturally, monk
wrote all the music, but hawk
was having trouble
reading it, so he asked monk
to explain it
to both trane
& himself. monk
said to hawk, you're the great
coleman hawkins,
right? you re the guy
who invented
the tenor saxophone,
right? hawk agreed. then monk
said to trane,
you're the great
john coltrane,
right? trane blushed,
& mumbled, aw....
i'm not so great. then monk said
to both of them, you both
play saxophone,
right? they nodded. well,
the music
is on the horn. between the two of you,
you should
be able
to find it.
harmonie park
detroit
july 11, 1988
reference: j.c. thomas,
coltrane: chasin' the trane
(doubleday, 1975)(dacapo paperback, 1976), p. 90
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