About the Monks

About the Monks

About the Monks

ASIN: B000787ZQ2

Editorial Reviews
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Since arriving in New York from Cuba in the late 1990s, the phenomenal young drummer Dafnis Prieto has enlivened everything he has touched, ranging from the tradition-socking bands of Eddie Palmieri and Chico O'Farrill to the boldy innovative outfits of Steve Coleman and Henry Threadgill. About the Monks, the first album under his name, is a sparkling debut that is conveniently labeled Latin jazz, but never sits still long enough to fit that description. Leading a terrific band including trumpeter and Latin jazz specialist Brian Lynch, saxophonist Yosvany Terry and oncoming Venezuelan pianist Luis Perdomo (whose new debut, Focus Point, is highly recommended), Prieto stages a stylistic carnival. His compositions are sly charmers, thriving on the expected clave beats, but also march rhythms, bursts of Colemanesque bop-funk and slashing stops and starts. Here making like Elvin Jones with his intricate, powerfully self-contained orchestrations, there providing visceral punch with a timbales-like sound, Prieto simply won't permit a dull moment to intrude on the music. --Lloyd Sachs

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About the Monks
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • The emergence of a major talent in the Latin jazz field
  • Very cool
 About the Monks
Dafnis Prieto
Manufacturer: Zoho Music
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000787ZQ2
Release Date: 2005-02-01

Tracks:

  1. About The Monks
  2. Tumba Francesca
  3. Ironico Arlequin
  4. Danzon Santa Clara
  5. On And On
  6. Trio Absolute
  7. Mechanical Movement
  8. Interrupted Question
  9. Conga En Ti

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Since arriving in New York from Cuba in the late 1990s, the phenomenal young drummer Dafnis Prieto has enlivened everything he has touched, ranging from the tradition-socking bands of Eddie Palmieri and Chico O'Farrill to the boldy innovative outfits of Steve Coleman and Henry Threadgill. About the Monks, the first album under his name, is a sparkling debut that is conveniently labeled Latin jazz, but never sits still long enough to fit that description. Leading a terrific band including trumpeter and Latin jazz specialist Brian Lynch, saxophonist Yosvany Terry and oncoming Venezuelan pianist Luis Perdomo (whose new debut, Focus Point, is highly recommended), Prieto stages a stylistic carnival. His compositions are sly charmers, thriving on the expected clave beats, but also march rhythms, bursts of Colemanesque bop-funk and slashing stops and starts. Here making like Elvin Jones with his intricate, powerfully self-contained orchestrations, there providing visceral punch with a timbales-like sound, Prieto simply won't permit a dull moment to intrude on the music. --Lloyd Sachs

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars The emergence of a major talent in the Latin jazz field.......2005-06-12

Dafnis Prieto is no stranger to Latin Jazz. Long associated with that marvelous Canadian honorary Latinista, Jane Bunnett, and anchor to such notable outfits as The Caribbean Jazz Project, The Columna B Group, The Edward Simon Trio, The Michel Camilo Trio, and The Chucho Valdez Quartet, the hard-swinging drummer and percussionist here steps out with a smokin' first disc as leader.

What initially strikes the listener is the breadth, power, and scope of the soundscape. It helps, of course, to have a killer band to lead: the altogether fabulous Yosvany Terry (leader of the group Columna B) on soprano, alto, and tenor sax; hard bopper Bryan Lynch on trumpet and flugelhorn; Hans Glawischnig on bass; and the fast-rising Latin star Louis Perdomo on piano. But the major responsibility for the thrumming engine driving this music rests squarely on the man occupying the drums chair and leading this session.

And Dafnis Prieto has certainly learned his lessons from the masters who've employed him. Indeed, he's pretty much surpassed them on his initial release: There's, simply, such a deeply delved, hard swinging vibe on display here as to subdue all but the most hortatory of the Latin jazz masters.

Signaling the arrival of a new generation of Latin jazz masters, About the Monks will surely go down as a landmark achievement from one of the music's brightest rising stars

5 out of 5 stars Very cool.......2005-06-10

Had the chance to see Dafnis Prieto perform with Michel Camilo(an excellent pianist btw) at the Blue Note in NYC, and I was blown aways by his drumming. Dafnis definitely deserves all the accolades he has been receiving. This album is worth every penny!
Mad About the Monks
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • A good rendition for specialized musical tastes
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Manufacturer: Polygram Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000001GOF
Release Date: 1994-09-20

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  1. Ambrosian Chant: Chant For Masses: Ingressa: Respice in me - Milan Cathedral Choir/Monsignore Luciano Migliavacca
  2. Ambrosian Chant: Chant For Masses: Psalmellus: Pacifice Ioquebantur - Milan Cathedral Choir/Monsignore Luciano Migliavacca
  3. Ambrosian Chant: Chant For Masses: Ante evangelium: In Bethlehem Judae - Milan Cathedral Choir/Monsignore Luciano Migliavacca
  4. Ambrosian Chant: Chant For Masses: Post Evangelium: Coenae tuae - Milan Cathedral Choir/Monsignore Luciano Migliavacca
  5. Ambrosian Chant: Chant For Masses: Ante Evangelium: Laudate dominum - Milan Cathedral Choir/Monsignore Luciano Migliavacca
  6. Ambrosian Chant: Chant For Masses: Transitorium: Gaude et laetare - Milan Cathedral Choir/Monsignore Luciano Migliavacca
  7. Ambrosian Chant: Chant For Masses: Transitorium: Te laudamus - Milan Cathedral Choir/Monsignore Luciano Migliavacca
  8. Ambrosian Chant: Chant For Offices: Hymnus: Splendor paternae gloriae - Milan Cathedral Choir/Monsignore Luciano Migliavacca
  9. Ambrosian Chant: Chant For Offices: Hymnus: Agnes beatae virginis - Milan Cathedral Choir/Monsignore Luciano Migliavacca
  10. Ambrosian Chant: Chant For Offices: Hymnus: Apostolorum passio - Milan Cathedral Choir/Monsignore Luciano Migliavacca
  11. Dedication Of A Church: Chants For The Mass: Intoitus: Terribilis est - Choir Of Monks Of The Abbey Of Our Lady Of Fontgombault/Dom G. Duchene
  12. Dedication Of A Church: Chants For The Mass: Kyrie XII - Choir Of Monks Of The Abbey Of Our Lady Of Fontgombault/Dom G. Duchene
  13. Dedication Of A Church: Chants For The Mass: Gloria XII - Choir Of Monks Of The Abbey Of Our Lady Of Fontgombault/Dom G. Duchene
  14. Dedication Of A Church: Chants For The Mass: Graduale: Locus iste - Choir Of Monks Of The Abbey Of Our Lady Of Fontgombault/Dom G. Duchene
  15. Dedication Of A Church: Chants For The Mass: Alleluia: Adorabo - Choir Of Monks Of The Abbey Of Our Lady Of Fontgombault/Dom G. Duchene
  16. Dedication Of A Church: Chants For The Mass: Offertorium: Domine Deus - Choir Of Monks Of The Abbey Of Our Lady Of Fontgombault/Dom G. Duchene
  17. Dedication Of A Church: Chants For The Mass: Sanctus XII - Choir Of Monks Of The Abbey Of Our Lady Of Fontgombault/Dom G. Duchene
  18. Dedication Of A Church: Chants For The Mass: Agnus Dei XII - Choir Of Monks Of The Abbey Of Our Lady Of Fontgombault/Dom G. Duchene
  19. Dedication Of A Church: Chants For The Mass: Communio: Domus mea - Choir Of Monks Of The Abbey Of Our Lady Of Fontgombault/Dom G. Duchene
  20. Proper Of The Mass For Easter Sunday: Introitus: Resurrexi - Choir Of The Monastery Of Maria Einsiedeln/Pater Roman Bannwart
  21. Proper Of The Mass For Easter Sunday: Graduale: Haec dies. Confitemini - Choir Of The Monastery Of Maria Einsiedeln/Pater Roman Bannwart
  22. Proper Of The Mass For Easter Sunday: Aleluia: Pascha nustrum - Choir Of The Monastery Of Maria Einsiedeln/Pater Roman Bannwart
  23. Proper Of The Mass For Easter Sunday: Sequentia: Victimae - Choir Of The Monastery Of Maria Einsiedeln/Pater Roman Bannwart
  24. Proper Of The Mass For Easter Sunday: Offertorium: Terra tremuit - Choir Of The Monastery Of Maria Einsiedeln/Pater Roman Bannwart
  25. Proper Of The Mass For Easter Sunday: Communio: Pascha nostrum - Choir Of The Monastery Of Maria Einsiedeln/Pater Roman Bannwart
  26. Old Spanish Chant: Prolegendium: Dominus regnavit - Chorus Of Monks Of The Abbey Of Santo Domingo De Silos/Dom Ismael Fernandez De La Cuesta
  27. Old Spanish Chant: Tractus: Vide, Domine, et considera - Chorus Of Monks Of The Abbey Of Santo Domingo De Silos/Dom Ismael Fernandez De La Cuesta
  28. Old Spanish Chant: Lauda (Post Evangelium): Laudate Dominum - Chorus Of Monks Of The Abbey Of Santo Domingo De Silos/Dom Ismael Fernandez De La Cuesta
  29. Old Spanish Chant: Preces: Ecclesiam sanctam catholicam - Chorus Of Monks Of The Abbey Of Santo Domingo De Silos/Dom Ismael Fernandez De La Cuesta
  30. Old Spanish Chant: Antiphona: Pacem meam do vobis - Chorus Of Monks Of The Abbey Of Santo Domingo De Silos/Dom Ismael Fernandez De La Cuesta
  31. Old Spanish Chant: Sanctus - Chorus Of Monks Of The Abbey Of Santo Domingo De Silos/Dom Ismael Fernandez De La Cuesta
  32. Old Spanish Chant: Pater Noster - Chorus Of Monks Of The Abbey Of Santo Domingo De Silos/Dom Ismael Fernandez De La Cuesta
  33. Old Spanish Chant: Pater Noster - Chorus Of Monks Of The Abbey Of Santo Domingo De Silos/Dom Ismael Fernandez De La Cuesta
  34. Old Spanish Chant: Ad Confractionem Panis: Gustate et videte - Chorus Of Monks Of The Abbey Of Santo Domingo De Silos/Dom Ismael Fernandez De La Cuesta

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars A good rendition for specialized musical tastes.......2002-08-26

Not everyone likes monk chants because they find them depressing or bringing up bad memories of attempts to cram demonstrably false religious beliefs down their throat. Others find monk chants relaxing. I am in this group. This recording is very relaxing. I play it in my car.

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