{"id":1446,"date":"2017-01-06T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T09:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglascowie.com\/?p=1446"},"modified":"2017-01-05T10:08:21","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T10:08:21","slug":"song-of-the-week-straight-no-chaser-by-thelonious-monk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/?p=1446","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Week: &#8220;Straight, No Chaser&#8221; by Thelonious Monk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it.<\/p>\n<p>This is &#8220;Straight, No Chaser&#8221; by Thelonious Monk:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z2J3ZJZ1kn8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been learning to play this song.\u00a0 There&#8217;s about a million components (give or take a couple) to the genius of Thelonious Monk, but what I&#8217;ve grown to really appreciate while playing a few of his notes (on a trumpet) is the complexity he fashions out of a very simple structure and key here.\u00a0 It&#8217;s basically a B-flat blues in 2\/2 time, and yet he makes it lurch and wind all over the place.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a song I&#8217;ll never get bored of listening to, and trying to play it seems to be endlessly fun and interesting, too.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"DouglasCowie\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Song%20of%20the%20Week%3A%20%22Straight%2C%20No%20Chaser%22%20by%20Thelonious%20Monk\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it. 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