Artist:
Monty Alexander
Title:
So What?
Year Of Release:
1991
Label:
Black & Blue [59.148 2]
Genre:
Jazz, Hard Bop
Quality:
FLAC (tracks + .cue,log) | MP3/320 kbps
Total Time: 43:22
Total Size: 158 MB(+3%) | 102 MB(+3%)
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Tracklist01. Saint Thomas (Rollins) - 3:58
02. Work Song (Adderley) - 4:54
03. For All We Know (Coots-Lewis) - 4:14
04. Isn't She Lovely? (Wonder) - 4:44
05. So What? (Davis) - 4:38
06. Blues for a Swiss Friend (Alexander) - 5:42
07. Matilda (Trad.) - 3:49
08. Fats & Richard (Alexander) - 3:27
09. The Way We Were (Hamlisch) - 4:20
10. Montevideo (Evans) - 3:36
personnel : Monty Alexander - piano
Reissued on CD in 1998, this long-unavailable session was Monty Alexander's earliest recorded set of unaccompanied piano solos. He had recorded as a leader since 1965 but usually with trios. Alexander, who mixes together the influence and technique of Oscar Peterson with his Caribbean heritage and his own musical imagination, has been a masterful pianist from the start, so playing solo certainly did not faze him. The repertoire includes some then-current pop tunes (including Stevie Wonder's "Isn't She Lovely" and "The Way We Were" which Alexander somehow uplifts) with romps on "St. Thomas," "So What," and a few originals. A very successful effort.~Scott Yanow
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Monty Alexander / "So What"
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