Tony Kofi Quartet “Plays Monk” was the first album released on Malcolm Mills’ Proper Records’ subsidiary Specific Jazz in 2005. It was recorded by Paul Riley in the Proper studio in 2004 and represented the culmination of five years’ study by Tony Kofi and the musicians associated with his Monk Liberation Front project. The (now deleted) compact disc release heralded Tony’s arrival as a bandleader and fully formed soloist when it was immediately awarded the winner of the prestigious BBC Jazz Awards “ALBUM OF THE YEAR”. With a real A-Team rhythm section behind him of Jonathan Gee, Piano; Winston Clifford, drums; and Ben Hazleton, bass, the Tony Kofi Quartet (with guest Orphy Robinson) take the themes of Thelonious Monk and give them a contemporary feel while never losing sight of the composer’s uniqueness. A 2LP set of the recordings on vinyl is scheduled for release on 3rd November 2023.
Side one Boo Boo’s Birthday Ugly Beauty Trinkle Tinkle
Side two Ruby My Dear Brilliant Corners Comin On The Hudson We See
Side three Crepuscule With Nellie Teo Misterioso
Side four Gallop’s Gallop Light Blue Think of One Monk’s Mood
The Tony Kofi Quartet – Plays Monk
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Tony Kofi Quartet “Plays Monk” was the first album released on Malcolm Mills’ Proper Records’ subsidiary Specific Jazz in 2005. It was recorded by Paul Riley in the Proper studio in 2004 and represented the culmination of five years’ study by Tony Kofi and the musicians associated with his Monk Liberation Front project. The (now deleted) compact disc release heralded Tony’s arrival as a bandleader and fully formed soloist when it was immediately awarded the winner of the prestigious BBC Jazz Awards “ALBUM OF THE YEAR”. With a real A-Team rhythm section behind him of Jonathan Gee, Piano; Winston Clifford, drums; and Ben Hazleton, bass, the Tony Kofi Quartet (with guest Orphy Robinson) take the themes of Thelonious Monk and give them a contemporary feel while never losing sight of the composer’s uniqueness. A 2LP set of the recordings on vinyl is scheduled for release on 3rd November 2023.
Side one
Boo Boo’s Birthday
Ugly Beauty
Trinkle Tinkle
Side two
Ruby My Dear
Brilliant Corners
Comin On The Hudson
We See
Side three
Crepuscule With Nellie
Teo
Misterioso
Side four
Gallop’s Gallop
Light Blue
Think of One
Monk’s Mood
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