6music The Freak Zone

[Tenor Freak]

Maconie's album of the week this week (on iPlayer until tomorrow, 6 March) is Jarrett's The Köln Concert. Funnily enough, I'd never heard it before, but could tell by the accompanying groans that it was our Keith.

A few weeks ago the album of the week was Ayler's Spiritual Unity. Lots of so-called Freaks hated it (as they did when Stuart played Conquistador).

Stuart's show is still a source of interesting stuff, well worth a listen (even if you have to forgive him his penchant for prog rock).

[Pianorak]

Judging by your avatar I assume you are a Thelonius Monk fan. I've been listening to a tape of his and thought this quote from Geoff Dyer's book "But Beautiful", which I've just started reading, sums him up nicely:

. . . His hands were like two racquetball players trying to wrong-foot each other, he was always wrong-fingering himself. But a logic was operating, a logic unique to Monk: if you always played the least expected note a form would emerge, a negative imprint of what was initially anticipated. You always felt that at the heart of the tune was a beautiful melody that had come out back to front, the wrong way around. Listening to him was like watching someone fidget, you felt uncomfortable until you started doing it too. . . Spelling and straight-line stuff don't matter necessarily in jazz . . . Jazz can see things, draw things out of people that painting or writing don't see. . .

[charles t]

"Funnily enough, I'd never heard it before..."

What's next, Bruce?

Interdigitation?

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

er no not prog rock, i can't forgive that .....

i have a hard enough time with my ambivalences about fusion