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Leonard Feather: You liked the arrangement? Monk: Did you make the arrangement? It was crazy. Feather: No. Monk: It was a bunch of musicians who were together, playing an arrangement. It sounded so good, it made me like the song better! Solos ... the trombone sounded good ... that was a good lead trumpet player too ... I don't know how to rate it, but I'd say it was top-notch.

Thelonious Monk Carolinian

Source

Reviewing Bob Florence's arrangement of Monk's "Straight, No Chaser"—featuring trombonist Herbie Harper and trumpeter John Audino—from Here and Now! (Bold, Swinging Big Band Ideas), for DownBeat's "Blindfold Test" (c. 1966); reproduced in The Encyclopedia of Jazz in the Sixties (1966) by Leonard Feather, p. 31

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1966
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