Clips de letras # 17

Eddie Bert
Trombonista de jazz



Foto de Thelonious Monk por William P. Gottlieb

Monk trusted Hall [Overton] because Hall knew exactly what to do. He knew what to leave out and what to put in. And you got to know that with Monk. I mean, you can't just – you know, it's not vanilla. In other words, it ain't like usual. It's got to be what Monk did. And the band, that tentet, was like a piano. You had to write it like a piano. So you'd be playing all kind of parts. They intertwine and go up and down. Each instrument was like a key on the piano. Monk must have been pleased with Town Hall or else he wouldn't have wanted to work with Hall again on Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall.

Hall would be playing piano for the rehearsal, and Monk would be in the other room dancing around in the way he did. Hall would ask him, 'When are you going to play?' Monk would say, 'When the tempo gets right.'
(in Stephenson, Sam: The jazz loft project)