Rabble Without A Cause
Wednesday March 18th, 2015 with Bernard Stepien
Thelonious Monk, Copenhagen, 1961

Thelonious Monk’s was a true revolutionary. Both his rhythmic and harmonic inventions have reshaped the music and things were never the same after that. While Jazz by the end of the Swing era was highly predictable, Monk shattered this model by stretching the music in all directions. Although he had little consideration for the new avant-garde musicians of the ‘60s, they expanded his concepts into a snow ball effect. Tonight we will explore his live recording in Copenhagen in 1961 at the start of a very active decade where he even made it as man of the year on Time magazine.