Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Cue The Band!!

Ehh... as Ned and I deal with certain technical difficulties, why don't y'all enjoy this clip pirated from the ouevre of the immortal Thelonious Monk?



A-and hey, why not use this space for any trans-Pynchonian talk too?

4 comments:

  1. Four American jazz guys in an audience-less studio in Oslo, in front of a huge, possibly amazing mural, in 1966... talk about bilocation...

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  2. You've gotta dig the silent bit at the end as Monk watches the notes drift away.

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  3. Given the absence of booty-shaking dancers and autistically quick cuts, I got bored and drifted away.

    The conversation going on between sax and piano during the statement of the theme (about 6:00 - 5:30) is just goddamned wonderful.

    That YouTube is good for something, ain't it...

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