The Christopher Butcher Trio Plays the Music of Thelonious Sphere Monk
This Wednesday night January 27th my trio with:
Todd Pentney- Piano
Jon Meyer- Upright Bass
will be playing the music of Thelonious Sphere Monk at Gate 403 in the late slot from 9PM-12AM.
Monk’s music is both extremely idiosyncratic and at the same time impossibly catchy. Vijay Iyer said it well:
“There is immense power and careful logic in the music of Thelonious Sphere Monk…Monk was an architect of feeling. His tunes were slick, inhabitable little rooms that warmed the heart with their odd angles and bright colors. Somehow he knew exactly how to make you feel good—and I mean exactly, as if it were medicine, or gastronomy, or massage, or feng shui.”
Gate 403 is a wonderful restaurant/bar/jazz club located at 403 Roncesvalles, just steps south from Dundas West Station. I really have been getting into the Gate lately, not just because it’s in the hippest part of Toronto the Parkdale/Roncesvalles Village area that I gladly now call home. It’s one of two clubs in Toronto that has Jazz music, full-time, they’ve got a piano a good menu and it’s a good place to hang.
Hope to see you there,
A note on the blog: stay tuned, this wasn’t intended to be a place to only promote my gigs and that’s what it’s become. There’s some transcriptions, life stories, etc. that I’ve meant to put up, they’re coming I promise
