Guitarist Miles Okazaki will perform the complete compositions of Thelonious Monk on solo guitar, on Wednesday, October 16 and Friday, October 18, both from 7 PM to Midnight at The Jazz Gallery.
These permormances are likely the first time that this body of work has been performed in a single night; 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. The show is ultimately an 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 acclaim for its originality and audacity. 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.
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The Jazz Gallery is located at 1158 Broadway, 5th floor (entrance on 27th Street), NYC
