{"id":6145,"date":"2013-04-29T11:00:55","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T09:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomajazz.com\/web\/?p=6145"},"modified":"2018-12-15T22:16:13","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T21:16:13","slug":"tomajazz-recomienda-un-blues-blue-monk-thelonious-monk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/tomajazz-recomienda-un-blues-blue-monk-thelonious-monk\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomajazz recomienda&#8230; un blues: \u00abBlue Monk\u00bb (Thelonious Monk)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-40482 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Thelonious-Monk_Blue-Monk_partitura-200x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"188\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Thelonious-Monk_Blue-Monk_partitura-200x188.jpg 200w, https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Thelonious-Monk_Blue-Monk_partitura.jpg 600w, https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Thelonious-Monk_Blue-Monk_partitura-58x55.jpg 58w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Por\u00a0<strong>Adolphus Van Tenzing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Maestro de maestros, compositor y pianista genial, bicho raro donde los haya: Thelonious Monk es uno de los m\u00fasicos m\u00e1s originales de la historia del jazz. Tanto sus temas como su forma de tocarlos parec\u00edan infantiles, histri\u00f3nicos, deslavazados. No hace falta mirar muy por debajo de la superficie para reconocer a un genio y a su obra.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sirva como ejemplo \u00abBlue Monk\u00bb, un simple <em>blues<\/em> en si bemol basado en l\u00edneas mel\u00f3dicas crom\u00e1ticas que cambian su contexto a diversas partes de la armon\u00eda y del tiempo. Por si la idea no fuera lo suficientemente brillante o no estuviera lo suficientemente bien ejecutada, los acordes subyacentes tambi\u00e9n hacen de las suyas apareciendo, ausent\u00e1ndose, perdiendo notas y, fundamentalmente, ajust\u00e1ndose como un guante al discurso mel\u00f3dico.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Siempre se habla del\u00a0<em>blues<\/em>, del\u00a0<em>blues\u00a0<\/em>de jazz y del\u00a0<em>blues\u00a0<\/em>de Charlie Parker. Hace tiempo que se deber\u00eda acu\u00f1ar otro concepto imprescindible: el\u00a0<em>blues\u00a0<\/em>de Monk.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00a9\u00a0<strong>Adolphus van Tenzing<\/strong>, 2018<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Por\u00a0Adolphus Van Tenzing. Maestro de maestros, compositor y pianista genial, bicho raro donde los haya: Thelonious Monk es uno de los m\u00fasicos m\u00e1s originales de la historia del jazz. Tanto sus temas como su forma de tocarlos parec\u00edan infantiles, histri\u00f3nicos, deslavazados. No hace falta mirar muy por debajo de la<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/tomajazz-recomienda-un-blues-blue-monk-thelonious-monk\/\">Contin\u00faa leyendo<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001004,"featured_media":40482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17860,1296,15517,1038,1273],"tags":[6354,1489,2015,16099,16100],"class_list":["entry","author-adolphus-van-tenzing","post-6145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-adolphus-van-tenzing","category-tema","category-textos","category-contenidos","category-tomajazz-recomienda","tag-blue-monk","tag-blues","tag-monk-thelonious","tag-toma-jazz","tag-tomajazz-toma-jazz"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Thelonious-Monk_Blue-Monk_partitura.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19768,"url":"https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/tomajazz-recomienda-una-frase-johnny-griffin-en-rhythm-a-ning-1958\/","url_meta":{"origin":6145,"position":0},"title":"Tomajazz recomienda&#8230; una frase: Johnny Griffin en \u00abRhythm-a-ning\u00bb (1958)","author":"Tomajazz","date":"28 septiembre, 2015","format":"image","excerpt":"La cita es un recurso privilegiado dentro del imaginario de la improvisaci\u00f3n jazz\u00edstica. 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