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LIVE IN FNAC - ba lue bolivar ba lues are - june 09
LIVE IN FNAC - we see - june 09
LIVE IN BEYNES JAZZ FESTIVAL - Light Blue - june 09
LIVE IN HABANA JAZZ CLUB - Monk' Mood- Paris june 08
LIVE IN HABANA JAZZ CLUB- Ugly Beauty- Paris june 08
RONALD ALPHONSE LATIN JAZZ SEXTET- Relax à ST Malo- june 06
Influences
BACH, ZAPPA, COLTRANE, RAVEL, BARTOK,CANNONBALL, FAURE, ALL FREE JAZZ MOVEMENTS, SCRIABINE, MINGUS.....MONK !
MUSICIANS ON THE CD
Piano: Eric MONTIGNY
Drs, Timbales, Percussions: Stéphane LAMBOTTE Acoustic and electric bass, fretless bass: Laurent BERNARD
Trp and fluegelhorn: Yann MARTIN, Nicolas GENEST
Tb: Olivier CARON
Tumbas, percussions: Dimitri GRANGER
Vibes: David PATROIS
Guitar: Jean-marie ECAY
Alto and baritone saxes, arrangements and additional music: Ronald ALPHONSE
Tracks
1. In walked bud
2. Monk's mood
3. Ba-lue bolivar ba-lues-are
4. Coming on the hudson
5. Played twice
6. Light blue
7. Let's cool one
8. Bye-ya
9. Ugly beauty
10. We see
11. Thelonious
As a kid, I remember listening to my dad's record, MONK in quintet with Frank FOSTER, Ray COPELAND, Art BLACKEY, and Curley RUSSELL... There were two mysteries about this album: First of all, a bit of white paint was so encrusted in the vinyl at the beginning of "we see" that each time it was played, it started in the middle of the song. I've always wondered how it began...and where that paint ever came from! Secondly, since there had only been 4 songs recorded, the record was so much smaller and so much heavier than a normal 33 ( that it looked like an old 78.) All of this seemed extremely strange to me, but curiously enough, not the music that I listened to with such pleasure. I've always felt very close to MONK's musical universe. undoubtedly, it's because of his sense of humor immediately found within his composition, and the thematic and repetitive treatment of his playing (which is similar to mine). It's also for the personal and mysterious manner that MONK has of undoing and reconstructing with such perfect use of rhythm and silence. Here is my explanation for this new CD. I've taken the liberty of arranging some of THELONIOUS' songs that I love so much in my very own special way among which is "we see."
1. Rumba para MONK- Jerry GONZALES 1988
2. PANAMONK - Danilo PEREZ 1996
3. Moods of THELONIOUS- Ronald ALPHONSE 2008
Je me rappelle qu'enfant, j'écoutais ce disque de mon père, MONK en quintet avec Frank FOSTER, Ray COPELAND, Art BLACKEY, et Curley RUSSELL..
Il y avait deux mystères dans cet album :
Premièrement, une croûte de peinture blanche était incrustée dans le vinyl au début de « we see », si bien qu'il fallait mettre à chaque fois le morceau au milieu. Je me demandais constamment ce qu'il y avait au début.....et d'où venait cette peinture!
D'autre part, quatre titres seulement étaient gravés si bien que le disque était beaucoup plus petit et plus lourd qu'un 33 tours normal (on aurait dit un ancien 78 tours).Tout ceci me semblait extrêmement mystérieux, mais curieusement pas la musique, que j'écoutais avec un réel plaisir..
Il me semble avoir été toujours très proche de l'univers musical de MONK, sans doute à cause de son sens immédiat de l'humour que l'on retrouve dans ses compositions, du traitement thématique et répétitif de son jeu ( c'est aussi ma façon de jouer), mais aussi pour la manière personnelle et mystérieuse que MONK a , en défaisant et reconstruisant avec une si parfaite utilisation du rythme et du silence.
Voici donc l'explication de cet album, où je me suis permis d'arranger à ma façon et sans complexe quelques titres de THELONIOUS que j'aime beaucoup,dont « we see » haha ! ..
Here a short bio
I PLAYED WITH:
Yuri BUENAVETURA, Oscar Lopez, Orlando POLEO, MAMBOMANIA, Peter King, Claude BOLLING, YVINEC, with trumpeters CHOCOLATE, Ron MEZZA, Nicolas GENEST,Vinh LE, Duylinh NGUYEN, Nicolas FOLMER, jean lou LONGNON, Véronika RODRIGUEZ, Florence Davis, Elvita DELGADO, John Meyer, Ralph TAMAR, Zool FLEISCHER, Cynthia SCOTT, Nancy Kelly, Cab CALLOWAY Junior, Paula WEST, Linda Lee HOPKINS, uptown jazz vocal quartet, Michel HAUSSER, Michaël CIVISTA, Claire Martin, Tony Marshall, Pikey BUTLER, Colin ROY, Mandy GAINES, Richard JACKSON, Bruce ADAMS, Ron APREA, Suleiman HAKIM .....
Performances in many festivals (Festival MINDELO Cape Verde), Nice Jazz Festival, Marciac Festival, Vic-Fesensac, Americando Latino Festival in Italy, Norway festival ....)
I played ten years the baritone saxophone with MAMBOMANIA Band all over Europe (first part of James BROWN in Estoril in 2000 ..), radios, televisions....
I worked in composition and classic harmony with Demis VISVIKIS and JAZZ arrangement and composition with Maria SCHNEIDER and Laurent CUGNY.
Hello Ronald, merci pour l'invitation, c'est vraiment excellent ce que tu as fait subir à Monk ! ;-)) J'ai joué avec Stéphane Lambotte il y a qques mois, super batteur, un régal... Bonne musique à toi ! Marianne
Thank you for the friendship on MySpace and stopping by, Ronald. Beautiful jazz tunes and great playing, I wish you much success with your music and your upcoming concerts. Have a nice weekend, Askiwi
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