Tag: John Hébert

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In the fall of 2020 in the backyard of Chicali Outpost in Los Angeles, the drummer Daniel Villarreal was joined by the guitarist Jeff Parker and bassist Anna Butterss for the first in-person recording session any of the participants had mustered as an ensemble since the start of the pandemic. Some of the resulting music appeared on Panamá 77,...

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...