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- Date Released: November 18, 2003
- Genre: Jazz
- Style: Avant-garde
- Label: Fuel
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This reissue of a 1969 French date makes its very first appearance on CD and its debut as a U.S. release some 25 years after its original issue on the BYG label as Epistrophy. Plays Monk is also the first record Lacy made after taking up residence in Paris. His band for the outing features the legendary Italian drummer Aldo Romano, the pianist Michel Graillier, and bassist Jean-François Jenny-Clark. There are five unusually complex Monk tunes here -- "Thelonious," "Ruby My Dear," "Light Blue," "Mysterioso," and "Friday the Thirteenth" -- and two versions of "Epistrophy." This is easily Lacy's "straightest" album from the period, and he stays melodically and harmonically close to Monk's original compositions in the heads before taking off somewhere else in the solos. But Lacy keeps to the notion of repetition, syncopation, and melodic invention that Monk did, and the band is nearly symbiotic in its communication around and with him. The music here is a delight and a revelation all at the same time. The sound is warm and full and the transfer is solid.
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| 01. |  |
Thelonious |
7:11 |
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| 02. | |
Ruby My Dear |
4:22 |
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| 03. | |
Light Blue |
5:56 |
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| 04. | |
Epistrophy |
2:13 |
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| 05. | |
Epistrophy (Part 2) |
6:46 |
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| 06. | |
Mysterioso |
3:56 |
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| 07. | |
Friday The Thirteenth |
5:49 |
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07 Total Tracks, 36:13 Total Length
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Credits
- Steve Lacy - Sax (Soprano) // Steve Lacy - Sax (Soprano) // Steve Lacy - Sax (Soprano) // Steve Lacy - Sax (Soprano) // Steve Lacy - Sax (Soprano) // Steve Lacy - Sax (Soprano) // Steve Lacy - Sax (Soprano) // Steve Lacy - Sax (Soprano) // Steve Lacy - Sax (Soprano) // Aldo Romano - Drums // Jean-François Jenny-Clark - Bass // Michel Graillier - Piano // Charles Raucher - Engineer // Scott Yanow - Liner Notes // Jean Georgakarakos - Producer // Jean-Louis Ginibre - Executive Producer // Jean Luc Young - Producer // Lee Tanner - Cover Photo // Jacques Bisceglia - Coordination
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