WAY OVERDUE : CD, PERFORMANCE, NEA JAZZ MASTER
it’s his time. and about time too.
to say that JIMMY OWENS plays the trumpet and flugelhorn, composes and arranges only begs his ourve. newly minted NEA Jazz Master/Advocate Owens has recorded what is hoped to be only the initial Thelonious Monk Project CD. its ten tracks contain familiar music by one of music’s more enigmatic and prolific composers but also an original penned by Owens for the occasion, “Thru Monk.”
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