Carolina QuotesIt reminded me of Bobby Timmons, and that's got to be good. Rhythm section has the right groove, too. Drummer made me think of Art Blakey. Hey, play that again. (Later.) Yeah! He sounds like a piano player! (Hums theme.) You can keep changing keys all the time doing that. Sounds like something that was studied and figured out. And he can play it; you know what's happening with this one. Yeah, he was on a Bobby Timmons kick. He knows what's happening.
Thelonious Monk Carolinian
Source
Reviewing "Carole's Garden" from Denny Zeitlin's Carnival, for DownBeat's "Blindfold Test" (c. 1966); reproduced in The Encyclopedia of Jazz in the Sixties (1966) by Leonard Feather, p. 30
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- 1966
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- p. 30
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“It reminded me of Bobby Timmons, and that's got to be good. …” Thelonious Monk. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-19BAD91654. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/19bad91654
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