{"id":18878,"date":"2020-06-07T05:30:57","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T09:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=18878"},"modified":"2020-05-20T12:24:19","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T16:24:19","slug":"album-review-vito-dieterle-and-joel-forrester-statussphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/07\/album-review-vito-dieterle-and-joel-forrester-statussphere\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Vito Dieterle and Joel Forrester \u2013 StatusSphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-18879\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/statussphere.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/statussphere.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/statussphere-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/statussphere-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>Jazz fans are likely to pick up on the in-joke of this album\u2019s cover art immediately. It\u2019s a visual homage to the 1957 LP <i>Monk\u2019s Music<\/i>. And the two round objects in the wagon are a nod to Thelonious Monk\u2019s nickname, \u201cSphere.\u201d <i>StatusSphere<\/i> is, then, a fitting name for a Monk tribute. Vito Dieterle plays tenor sax, and Joel Forrester takes on the daunting task of playing piano in a Monk style on this disc featuring a dozen duets. Forrester\u2019s playing is deft and lyrical, but lacking in the idiosyncratic approach that defined Monk\u2019s own approach to the keyboard. Of course that\u2019s an unfair if inevitable comparison.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than simply tackle a collection of Monk classics, Dieterle and Forrester give over just more than half of the set to Monk compositions. So we get the expected tunes like \u201cWork,\u201d \u201cBa-Lu-Bolivar Ba-Lues Are\u201d and \u201cRuby My Dear\u201d (and not one but two readings of \u201cCrepuscle with Nellie\u201d). But the disc also features five Forrester originals, written and played in a style that complements the Monk material.<\/p>\n<p>In his brief liner note essay Forrester remarks upon Monk\u2019s \u201cinvolved detachment.\u201d That phrase applies to the unspoken communication between the two musicians on this recording as well. They clearly get the spirit of Thelonious Monk, and they channel it admirably.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jazz fans are likely to pick up on the in-joke of this album\u2019s cover art immediately. It\u2019s a visual homage to the 1957 LP Monk\u2019s Music. And the two round [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18879,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,42,49,65],"tags":[4207,2193,4208],"class_list":["post-18878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-instrumental","category-jazz","category-new-release","category-review","tag-joel-forrester","tag-thelonious-monk","tag-vito-dieterle","cat-40-id","cat-42-id","cat-49-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18880,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18878\/revisions\/18880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}