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PASSing on Monk- Birthday Special
Jazz saxophonist Steve Lacy was a diehard follower of Thelonious Monk. He wasn’t just a fan, either; Lacy became known for his recorded renditions of Monk tunes and later played in Monk’s band of the early ’60s.
When the master spoke, Lacy listened — and even wrote down Monk’s words of wisdom.
Stay with us here, because another great saxophonist and music educator, Jamey Aebersold, recently shared some of Lacy’s handwritten notes with the good folks at Steve Maxwell Drums, who in turn posted the notes on their website.
And we now share some favorites with you. We found the following seven bits of Monk wisdom particularly ageless and profound.
1. “Stop playing all those weird notes. Play the melody.”
2. “Don’t play the piano part, I’m playing that.”
3. “The inside of a tune (the bridge) is the part that makes the
outside sound good.”
4. “Don’t play everything or every time; let some things go by.”
5. “Stay in shape! Sometimes a musician waits for a gig and when it
comes, he’s out of shape and can’t make the gig.”
6. “Don’t sound [sic] anybody for a gig. Just be on the scene.”
7. “Just because you’re not a drummer, doesn’t mean you don’t have to keep time.”
No deadly sin, but our favorite: “You’ve got to dig it to dig it, you dig?”
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happy birthday papa!
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Thursday at PASS
1-3pm: Andy Williams breaks it down 4pm: Limbe– Gilbert speaks to Polyveran who is a a Kabaret singer and hosts Ngwayi Eugene Nfor, who’s brought his guitar and more songs, once more. 6-8pm: ‘We don’t talk No More’ Poetic Musings– This week Nonkululeko Godana is joined by Yewande Omotoso, a fellow pen-sive in con-verse-tion with Phillipa Kabali – Kagwa, Diana Ferrus as well as Sindiwe Magona about life, love, writing and the mundane in between.. Some musical accompaniment by DJ …
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Dr Philip Tabane and Kyle Shepherd
Roger Young reports on the show at St Georges’ Cathedral on Mahala Wednesday, October 6th, 2010 images by Niklas Zimmer It’s Thursday night and I’m in church; near the back as usual. I arrived late to see the Kyle Shepherd Trio at St Georges Cathedral based on the assumption that because the More More More Future gig had started a full hour late on Tuesday, this would as well. The Cathedral is full and dark; Kyle Shepherd has already started. …
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Hangberg Documentary
Internationally acclaimed filmmaker and artist Aryan Kaganof, Dylan Valley, the award winning director of Afrikaaps, and community representative Greg Louw screen THE UPRISING OF HANGBERG, their documentary on the human rights violations in Hangberg, Cape Town at PASS Studios on Sunday, October 10 at 6.30 pm. Through stark, often shocking footage and interviews they explore the aftermath of the recent police brutality on the Hout Bay community. Moving from character to character, perspective to perspective, the film is a complex …
PASS Studio Kabako
Roger Young on Studio Kabako More, more, more… Future in Mahala SPACE 2: Launch Tuesday, October 5th, 2010. Images by Sydelle Willow Smith Flamme Kapaya walks onto stage under cover of almost darkness, in a red sequined tail coat holding a double necked electric guitar. He sits on a low stool and begins to play a slight tinkling spacey guitar sound that sways sideways like planets in orbit. The rest of the band filter onto stage; his bassist is dressed …
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PASS-ed Universes
The pass’t week might have been a sonic blitz for some but our sister Emma Arogundade made a note at each venue and scribed this poem for us all. PASS-ed Universes 1. This night, these worlds exposed raw sequinned screams not against, but FOR something more…more…more future 2. Overseen and under-herd fragments reveal themselves the jazzy DJ guru nodding his head in a curve of appreciation And closer to me three small boys who loose to the wildness of rythm …
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Javeriana Estereo
Cyber Cadets have enjoyed much of the festival thanks to Anthony who comes into the studio with recordings still hot from the show to share with you in Munich, Bamako, Bahia, Kin la Belle. Today he beams Javeriana Estereo from Columbia at 5pm. In Cape Town, cadets make their way to Gug S’thebe today for the last leg of the live festival and return to enjoy a 48 hour DJ Story Jam. Anthony dreamt up this insane cocktail, requesting that …
PASSCASTS
Missed a live broadcast or event? Listen back with PASSCASTS of Kisangani (DRC) based dance collective Kabako Studio’s More more more… Future, recorded live at the City Hall on September 28; Mbuso T’s evolutionary Maf & So set recorded live at Albert Hall, Woodstock on September 29; conversations with Brice Wassy, Theo Parrish, and choreographer, artist Faustin Linyekula of Studio Kabako; as well as 3D Thought Sessions; Satellite Sessions; DJ Andy Williams; Ntone playing with electricity; Riempie Vasmaak with Brydon …
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More more more… Future last night at PASS
Delicate and brutal, feverish and fearless, beautiful and ugly, Kabako Studio’s More more more… Future literally exploded last night at launch of PASS live music festival. It’s the story of the Congo and its brutal history, but it’s also a story of here and now, one that transcends a nation and thereby redefines our sense of belonging to history and the world. Much of the story is told in between repetitive images of bodies, grotesque and unexpected, that pervade the …