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Thursday, 29 December 2005 11:12 |
#92
blues 5 spot
for al young
mr. roy haynes on drums
joined monk's quartet
at the 5 spot cafe in new york city
in the summer of 1958
with johnny griffin on tenor
& ahmed abdul-malik
on bass. they made 2
fantastic
live recording dates for riverside
while they were there,
mysterioso & thelonious
in action. roy haynes says:
monk always told me
that drummers could only play
3
tempos & when you got them
out of those, they couldn t
make it
happen. so he always called
odd
tempos,
but they swung. monk
played the same tunes
all the time,
but you didn t know
where
he was going to kick them off
or what
he was going to play
once they got started. he
understood
swing
perfectly,
perfectly. his tunes
swung
by themselves,
all the momentum
is built in. & when monk
wanted to rumble
inside that music, the groove
would be unbe-
lievable. he could
tilt
the beat,
too, get it
in a place where it was
almost
OFF,
but never was. monk was
from that era. he
knew
rhythm.
bloomington, indiana
june 25, 1986
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