Monk manuscripts on Ebay?

[bertrand]

What's up with these Monk manuscripts on Ebay and who is selling them? See Ethan Iverson's blog.

Bertrand.

 

[Dmitry]

What do you mean 'what's up'? Someone bought them from the famous Guernsey's Auction of jazz memorabilia in 2005. I was there too, it was amazing! Wish I had the money then.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=pioneer+pl-70lii&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.Xthelonious+monk+manuscript.TRS0&_nkw=thelonious+monk+manuscript&_sacat=0

[Hardbopjazz]

Monk would be laughing his ass off if he saw how much is being asked for these. 

[sidewinder]

Didn’t someone on the board win a Miles or Coltrane Downbeat Award at that Guernsey auction? And was it really already 12 years ago ! 

[JSngry]

Do they sound better if you play them off of Monk's lead sheets?

OTOH, I've seen so many jacked-up fake book renditions...

But that Hal Leonard thing, the one's I've tried, they seem to get them right.

But on the whole, the once-ongoing narrative of how Monk's tunes were "hard to play" is at least as much a function of the inability of people of the time to think like Monk to go after the "sounds" instead looking for the "chords"...you see all kinds of assumptions based on standard practice of the time projected onto root movements, and even when they get that part right (which is only a sometimes thing), they're still not right, because if you play them like you would other fake book sheets of "normal" songs, they just sound...wrong.

Just saying, the shit IS hard it becomes a different type of hard once you get to the actual notes, not the assumptions.

[bertrand]

Never paid attention to the auction. So the Monk Estate sold them?

[Dmitry]

Yes, along with other Monk-related items, clothing, etc. Catalog should be online.