Thanks so much to Bart for these photos - and, of course, to everyone who participated in Sound It Out’s fifth-anniversary festival, raising funds for Greenwich House Music School!
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With music direction by guitarist Rez Abbasi, the jaw-dropping “Monk on Guitars 1” band also included guitarists Nels Cline, Julian Lage, David Gilmore, Miles Okazaki, Liberty Ellman, Steve Cardenas, Anders Nilsson and Mike Baggetta, plus bassists Stephan Crump and Jerome Harris and the drummers Colin Stranahan, Richie Barshay and Mark Whitfield Jr. Now here's the fourth of five posts sharing Bart’s beautiful shots from the “Monk on Guitars 1” concert, with one more to follow. Evocative photos by Bart Babinski from the festival’s first three events - featuring Fay Victor’s Herbie Nichols Sung band, the duo of saxophonist Tim Berne & pianist Matt Mitchell, and an all-star ensemble performing the music of Paul Motian - have already been posted.
In June 2017, Sound It Out capped its fifth-anniversary festival at NYC’s Greenwich House Music School - shows that raised considerable funds for the school and its new, much-needed air-conditioning system - with a rousing, over-capacity event that showcased the music of Thelonious Monk played by some of NYC’s finest jazz guitarists and rhythm sections. Now here's the fifth of five posts sharing Bart’s beautiful shots from the “Monk on Guitars 1” concert.