{"id":26367,"date":"2023-10-29T05:30:43","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T09:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=26367"},"modified":"2023-10-24T14:54:16","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T18:54:16","slug":"album-review-gregory-lewis-organ-monk-coming-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/29\/album-review-gregory-lewis-organ-monk-coming-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Gregory Lewis \u2013 Organ Monk Coming Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-26368\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/gregory_lewis_omch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/gregory_lewis_omch.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/gregory_lewis_omch-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/gregory_lewis_omch-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>This New York City based organist is immersed in jazz, funk and blues. And for his latest album, Lewis has chosen to interpret the work of Thelonious Monk. Fronting a spare trio (himself plus guitarist Kevin McNeal and Nasheet Watts on drums), Lewis cut the album in a pair of one-day sessions. The vibe is up close and personal, and the character strikes a good balance between faithful readings and personal expression. Lewis also does a fine job of choosing material, splitting it between well-known numbers like \u201cBrilliant Corners\u201d and lesser-known material.<\/p>\n<p>The set includes one Lewis original, the set closer \u201cJaclyn\u2019s Eyes.\u201d I had half expected it to show the influence that Monk has upon his compositional style, but the tune is quite different, with more of a gospel-meets fusion flavor (if one can imagine such a thing). Taken as a whole, though, <i>Jazz Monk Coming Home<\/i> is expertly played, subtly rendered and engaging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This New York City based organist is immersed in jazz, funk and blues. And for his latest album, Lewis has chosen to interpret the work of Thelonious Monk. Fronting a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26368,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,42,49,65],"tags":[3302],"class_list":["post-26367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-instrumental","category-jazz","category-new-release","category-review","tag-gregory-lewis","cat-40-id","cat-42-id","cat-49-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26369,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26367\/revisions\/26369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}