REMONKABILIY is a quartet project with a long history that’s been reactivated in recognition of the centennial year (2017) of the birth of composer & pianist Thelonious Sphere Monk. The project gradually accumulated through occasions here & there that asked for arrangements of Monk compositions, Each presented an opportunity to compositionally run with some of the windows shining through some of Monk’s brilliantly cornered sonic constructs to find something else — not exactly what Monk would have done, but saturated in nevertheless (& extended from) Monk’s own distinctive soundlogic.
The current version of ReMonkability includes:
patrick brennan — arrangements/recompositions & saxophone
Hilliard Greene — bass viol
Brian Groder — trumpet & fluegelhorn
Michael “T A” Thompson — soundrhythium