Dinah (Take 1)
Solo piano · recorded 1965MIDI file
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For Solo Monk, recorded in 1964 and 1965, Monk opened with Dinah, the 1925 pop song, played as an affectionate send-up of twenties stride piano. This file is Take 1, the alternate performance issued on the album's expanded edition.
The joke is serious: under the vaudeville bounce sits Monk's whole rhythmic art, hesitations and displaced accents no stride pianist of 1925 would have dared.
Both hands are transcribed on separate channels, exactly as played.
- Artist
- Thelonious Monk
- Genres
- Jazz Piano, Stride Piano
- Recorded
- 1965
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- Duration
- 2:18
- Tempo
- about 85 bpm
- Key
- A flat major
- Channels
- 2 · left and right hand
- Format
- .mid · Type 1
Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk built a whole sound world from angular melodies, dissonant clusters and radical use of space. Among the most recorded jazz composers ever, his tunes like Blue Monk and Round Midnight are cornerstones of the repertoire.