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RONALD ALPHONSE

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NEW CD "MOODS OF THELONIOUS"


Tracks
1. In walked bud
2. Monk's mood
3. Ba-lue bolivar ba-lues-are
4. Coming on the hudson
5. Played twice
6. Light blue
7. Let's cool one
8. Bye-ya
9. Ugly beauty
10. We see
11. Thelonious

As a kid, I remember listening to my dad's record, MONK in quintet with Frank FOSTER, Ray COPELAND, Art BLACKEY, and Curley RUSSELL... There were two mysteries about this album: First of all, a bit of white paint was so encrusted in the vinyl at the beginning of "we see" that each time it was played, it started in the middle of the song. I've always wondered how it began...and where that paint ever came from! Secondly, since there had only been 4 songs recorded, the record was so much smaller and so much heavier than a normal 33 ( that it looked like an old 78.) All of this seemed extremely strange to me, but curiously enough, not the music that I listened to with such pleasure. I've always felt very close to MONK's musical universe. undoubtedly, it's because of his sense of humor immediately found within his composition, and the thematic and repetitive treatment of his playing (which is similar to mine). It's also for the personal and mysterious manner that MONK has of undoing and reconstructing with such perfect use of rhythm and silence. Here is my explanation for this new CD. I've taken the liberty of arranging some of THELONIOUS' songs that I love so much in my very own special way among which is "we see."
RONALD ALPHONSE - may 08


LATIN JAZZ-SALSA PROJECTS ABOUT COMPLETE MONK
1. Rumba para MONK- Jerry GONZALES 1988
2. PANAMONK - Danilo PEREZ 1996
3. Moods of THELONIOUS- Ronald ALPHONSE 2008

Je me rappelle qu'enfant, j'écoutais ce disque de mon père, MONK en quintet avec Frank FOSTER, Ray COPELAND, Art BLACKEY, et Curley RUSSELL..
Il y avait deux mystères dans cet album :
Premièrement, une croûte de peinture blanche était incrustée dans le vinyl au début de « we see », si bien qu'il fallait mettre à chaque fois le morceau au milieu. Je me demandais constamment ce qu'il y avait au début.....et d'où venait cette peinture!
D'autre part, quatre titres seulement étaient gravés si bien que le disque était beaucoup plus petit et plus lourd qu'un 33 tours normal (on aurait dit un ancien 78 tours).Tout ceci me semblait extrêmement mystérieux, mais curieusement pas la musique, que j'écoutais avec un réel plaisir..
Il me semble avoir été toujours très proche de l'univers musical de MONK, sans doute à cause de son sens immédiat de l'humour que l'on retrouve dans ses compositions, du traitement thématique et répétitif de son jeu ( c'est aussi ma façon de jouer), mais aussi pour la manière personnelle et mystérieuse que MONK a , en défaisant et reconstruisant avec une si parfaite utilisation du rythme et du silence.
Voici donc l'explication de cet album, où je me suis permis d'arranger à ma façon et sans complexe quelques titres de THELONIOUS que j'aime beaucoup,dont « we see » haha ! ..
Here a short bio

I PLAYED WITH:

Y uri BUENAVETURA, Oscar Lopez, Orlando POLEO, MAMBOMANIA, Peter King, Claude BOLLING, YVINEC, with trumpeters CHOCOLATE, Ron MEZZA, Nicolas GENEST, Nicolas FOLMER, jean lou LONGNON, Véronika RODRIGUEZ, Florence Davis, Elvita DELGADO, John Meyer, Ralph TAMAR, Zool FLEISCHER, Cynthia SCOTT, Nancy Kelly, Cab CALLOWAY Junior, Paula WEST, Linda Lee HOPKINS, uptown jazz vocal quartet, Michel HAUSSER, Michaël CIVISTA, Claire Martin, Tony Marshall, Pikey BUTLER, Colin ROY, Mandy GAINES, Richard JACKSON, Bruce ADAMS, Ron APREA, Suleiman HAKIM .....
Performances in many festivals (Festival MINDELO Cape Verde), Nice Jazz Festival, Marciac Festival, Vic-Fesensac, Americando Latino Festival in Italy, Norway festival ....)
I played ten years the baritone saxophone with MAMBOMANIA Band all over Europe (first part of James BROWN in Estoril in 2000 ..), radios, televisions....
I worked in composition and classic harmony with Demis VISVIKIS and JAZZ arrangement and composition with Maria SCHNEIDER and Laurent CUG NY.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 24/10/2006
Band Website: http://mot.ronaldalphonse.com
Band Members:
UGLY BEAUTY ( complete)


LIVE IN FNAC - ba lue bolivar ba lues are - june 09 LIVE IN FNAC - we see - june 09  LIVE IN BEYNES JAZZ FESTIVAL - Light Blue - june 09LIVE IN HABANA JAZZ CLUB - Monk' Mood- Paris june 08

LIVE IN HABANA JAZZ CLUB- Ugly Beauty- Paris june 08

RONALD ALPHONSE LATIN JAZZ SEXTET- Relax à ST Malo- june 06
Influences:

BACH, ZAPPA, COLTRANE, RAVEL, BARTOK,CANNONBALL, FAURE, ALL FREE JAZZ MOVEMENTS, SCRIABINE, MINGUS.....MONK !


MUSICIANS ON THE CD

Piano: Eric MONTIGNY

Drs, Timbales, Percussions: : Stéphane LAMBOTTE

Acoustic and electric bass, fretless bass: Laurent BERNARD

Trp and fluegelhorn: Yann MARTIN, Nicolas GENEST

Tb: Olivier CARON

Tumbas, percussions: Dimitri GRANGER

Vibes: David PATROIS

Guitar: Jean-marie ECA Y

Alto and baritone saxes, arrangements and additional music: Ronald ALPHONSE




Record Label: ::MY LITTLE HANDS::

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DERNIERES CHRONIQUES

www.jazz-rhone-alpes.com - 18/05/09Philippe MANIEZOn retrouve avec plaisir l'esprit de Monk&&&.Les thèmes sont rééarrangés, orchestrés et "re-rythmisés" de façon originale par un chef de session manif...
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CHRONIQUES DU CD

D’abord il y a ces thèmes. Tous issus du répertoire monkien. Des tubes mais le plus souvent des morceaux peu joués piochés tout au long de la carrière du pianiste (de 1947 pour les plus anciens ...
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Excellent .. really a great CD and a good original way to approach MONK .. "Laurent MATHERON- saxophone notebook (16/01/08)"It's abundant, copper, percussive, metal ... The famous tunes are revisited ...
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