Guitarist Miles Okazaki will perform the complete compositions of Thelonious Monk live in NYC on solo guitar
On October 16th and 18th, 2024, from 7pm to Midnight, at The Jazz Gallery in NYC, Miles Okazaki will give two performances of the complete compositions of Thelonious Monk. This will likely be the first time that this body of work has been performed in a single night, and the shows will be shot and recorded for a concert film. Attendees will be able to purchase tickets for the evening and come and go between songs as needed over the course of four sets. Okazaki will play from memory on a 1940 Charlie Christian electric guitar, celebrating Monk’s 107th birthday in this extended meditation on, and exploration of, one of the greatest collections of compositions in music history.
This concert builds on the recording of the complete songbook that Okazaki began in 2017, Thelonious Monk’s centennial year. Upon its release in 2018, the 6-disc, 70-track album WORK received wide critical acclaim for its originality and audacity—Nate Chinen described it as “the six-string equivalent of a free solo climb up El Capitan.” The album landed on more than a dozen Top Ten lists for 2018, and Okazaki was voted the #1 rising star guitarist in the DownBeat Critic’s poll. For the concerts on Oct. 16th and 18th, Okazaki will take his year-long preparatory effort and present it all in a single night.
Cost:
Tickets are $35/$20 members; cabaret seating; $45/$30 members
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