Thelonious Monk - Piano Solo THE WHITE STRIPES A balance of dark and

A balance of dark and light is present throughout the music

Paddy Canny

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the Mary Chain descended on Glasgow’s Barrowland Ballroom – a legendary venue down the road from where the Reid brothers grew up in neighbouring East Kilbride – and tore through the songs that would propel them to worldwide acclaim upon Psychocandy’s release in 1985

Thelonious Monk - Piano Solo THE WHITE STRIPES A balance of dark andIt happens very rarely that you can praise a record without any reservations, this is the case here. A lot of ink has flowed across the page since the Vogue Swing release (1955) of that founding solo record. The repertoire was made up of pieces that Thelonious Monk was playing in New York over that period, but in trio or with a quartet, here his music shows nakedness, I should say crudeness, which is completely overwhelming. It is a black and white