Ledenconcert Michael Moore

Michael Moore: "Monk 1915-1981 was one of the greatest jazz composers. He known for his angular melodies & dissonant harmonies; to this I would add his emphasis on pure sound, and his intensely rhythmic structures. His biographer Robin D. G. Kelley writes “his clang-clang sound of surprise, rich with deafening silences, disssonances and harmonic ambiguities. It was the ice-cream truck sound: Monk the good humor man.” Indeed, his music makes me happy.

His oeuvre is a school in itself - the pieces are lessons in problem solving.

He said that he just wanted to write pieces that musicians would want to play, at which he was very sucessful.

I have been playing these pieces all my life, some of which are simple, others very complicated. Working with a single-note instrument, and playing music written for piano or jazz quartet, my challenge is to choose the most representative aspects of each piece."

Michael Moore - clarinet solo

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