Steve Lacy - Reflections: Steve Lacy Plays Thelonious Monk (Clear Vinyl) - LP - Sowing Records (Italy) Pat Arnold and Doris Troy

Pat Arnold and Doris Troy

The new album is cosmopolitan jazz rap - smooth production with velvet lyricists from around the globe

just do you

and check them out on the cover of Spin's September issue

Then they go very unexpected with "Stranger Things Theme" where they take the synth heavy theme song to the hit show and give it a more hypnotizing tone than the original

Steve Lacy - Reflections: Steve Lacy Plays Thelonious Monk (Clear Vinyl) - LP - Sowing Records (Italy) Pat Arnold and Doris TroyAll of soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy's early recordings are quite fascinating, for during 1957 1964, aspects of his style at times hinted at Dixieland, swing, Monk, and Cecil Taylor, sometimes at the same time. Here, Lacy teams up with pianist Mal Waldron, bassist Buell Neidlinger, and drummer Elvin Jones for seven Thelonious Monk compositions. The typical standbys (such as "Round Midnight," "Straight No Chaser," and "Blue Monk") are avoided in favor