Rob Price
Gutbrain Records
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2009 October 03 • Saturday

Here's something confusing from today's New York Times. About Kurt Rosenwinkel's recent performance at the Vanguard, Ben Ratliff wrote: "At one point during an extraordinary solo in a version of Monk's 'Reflections,' he ran rapid five-note phrases across a four-four rhythm — 20 in a single bar of music, each one articulated".

Twenty five-note phrases? A hundred notes per bar? That would certainly be "rapid" and "extraordinary". Probably he meant one five-note phrase for each of the four beats; four phrases, twenty notes per bar.