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Tracks of the Week 03.12.22

Tracks of the Week
Overlooked at the time, following a handful of sessions on Blue Note which marked his debut as a leader, between 1952 and 1954 the pianist Thelonious Monk cut a series of records for Prestige, some of the earliest and greatest of which were collected under the title Thelonious Monk Trio. Intense, improvisational, and virtuosic as Monk played accompanied by...

Tracks of the Week 14.05.22

Tracks of the Week
This week the Los Angeles-based new music collective Wild Up return with their second volume of works by the late composer Julius Eastman, combining the fiery minimalism of early pieces like 'Stay On It' and 'Touch Him When' with stately and shimmering renditions of the previously unrecorded 'Joy Boy' and 'Buddha'. Francesca Heart anchors her limpid ambient projections in...