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The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Plays Monk at The Appel Room
Courtesy of Jazz at Lincoln Center | Posted on February 23, 2018
Where
The Appel Room
Broadway At 60th St.
New York, NY
Map
212-258-9800
When
Thu, October 25, 2018
8:00 pm
Save the date
About
Thelonious Monk’s music is a playful, profound, and universally loved jazz canon. Its deceptive simplicity unites musicians of all backgrounds and offers endless opportunity for interpretation and improvisation. The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis has been performing a steadily growing Thelonious Monk repertoire since its inception (now totaling over 40 songs), and the JLCO will one day become the first big band ever to play all 72 original Monk compositions. Tonight you will hear the latest additions to their Monk songbook. In addition to new versions penned by renowned members of the JLCO, you will also hear arrangements written exclusively for this event by some of jazz’s most promising young composers, including Joe Block and Matt Wong, who won Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Essentially Ellington Composition/Arrangement competition when they were in high school...