[Dixielandjazz] Improving on the originals ( Monk)

[patcooke77 at yahoo.com]

Amazing!
 
Reminds me of the tongue-in-cheek album made by Paul Weston and Jo Stafford some years back.  They took some good tunes and played them all with a 2 or 3 change format.  The album cover showed a keyboard with two left hands playing.  Anybody remember it?  They used made up names instead of their real names.
 
    Pat Cooke

----- Original Message ----
From: Steve barbone <barbonestreet at earthlink.net>
To: DJML <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 7:34:27 PM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Improving on the originals


A recent thread talked about this subject. Here is an example (?). While
it's a re do of MONK, the point is made if you listen to:

http://www.myspace.com/hansgroinerplaysmonk

This can't be for real, but it unfortunately IS!

Mr. Groiner's rationalization (?) for what he does is:

"On the one hand, Mr. Monk had obvious talents, but on the other hand,
his piano playing was very messy, and his songs had many funny notes and
rhythms. Over the many years that I have been studying his music, I have
grown to the conclusion that his songs would be much better, and much
more popular, if many of the dissonances, or "wrong notes," were
removed."

OH MY!

Wonder what he would do to the ODJB or King Oliver?

Cheers,
Steve Barbone


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