Thelonious Monk - It's Monk's Time - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Among the most intense and fascinating recording sessions of Thelonious Monk's career, Monk's Music surrounds the pianist/composer with his early boss Coleman Hawkins, his ideal drummer Art Blakey, two younger musicians who had worked with him productively earlier in the Fifties (Ray Copeland and Gigi Gryce), and another pair that would soon make history as part of his legendary Five Spot quartet (John Coltrane and Wilbur Ware). The program includes early Monk classics and the thorny new Crepuscule with Nellie, extended blowing performances and a brief opening horn fanfare, the sum of which equals an album where even the rough edges confirm the combustible atmosphere generated when jazz's best worked under the direction of the music's supreme individualist.

The ParadoxInch is the sixth and undoubtedly most versatile album by thrashers Eradicator. It is released in the year of the band's 20th anniversary. Ten new songs deal lyrically with the contradictory nature of being human and present many musical facets, not only of thrash metal. The Paradox bears the signature of Eradicator and shows their unbroken joy of playing. The band has also made a name for itself live. However, the four guys from Sauerland are not afraid to refine and develop their new compositions stylistically. Eradicator begin atmospherically on The Paradox with InchBeyond The Shadow's VoidInch The track develops into a pounding headbanger, only to finally erupt into a thrash thunderstorm. In addition to death metal growls, including in the title track, InchThe Eleventh Hour (Ramble On)Inch is the first half-ballad in the band's repertoire. However, Eradicator have by no means forgotten how to swing the thrash club, as they tirelessly prove with InchDrown In ChaosInch, InchHell Smiles BackInch or InchFake DealerInch, among others. The lyrical themes on InchThe ParadoxInch reflect the ambivalence and ambivalence of human action and thought. InchPerpetual SacrificeInch is about denigrating the weaker in order to make oneself feel greater and about the reversal between victim and perpetrator. InchWhen The Shooting BeginsInch is about the paradox of wanting to create peace through war - whereby the truth is usually one of the first victims after the outcry of the weapons. The concluding InchDebris Of DemiseInch is a fictional tale of mankind having to evacuate the planet due to environmental destruction, but the saving ark being unable to leave orbit due to the large amount of space debris. Singer and guitarist Seba Stöber says, InchWe don't want to make a name for ourselves as moralizers, but rather reflect the issues and problems of our time. As artists,

Bonus tracks Thelonious, Little Rootie Tootie (encore), in Walked Bud, Blue Monk, Rhythm-A-Ning with Jay McAllister, Robert Northern, Eddie Bert, Donald Byrd, Pepper Adams, Charlie Rouse, Phil Woods, Sam Jones, and Arthur Taylor.