Three Kings.

With this one, my influences were clear:

I was thinking of the Thelonius Monk composition “Evidence” from 1948, 1957, 1958, 1960 and 1964. (Personally I prefer the 1963 Japan version)

Fear not, nothing is being plagiarized here!

So, LOSE THE EVIDENCE, although more suitable title would be “Lose to Evidence”, ‘cos comparing these two works is like comparing the whole western literature to a big mac Dave bought last week. You can decide which is which.

Anyway, my piece also has melody with jerky rhythm, and a chord structure, which only little by little starts to make any sense.

Now that I do some rare and actual thinking… The Monk in Japan “Evidence” was probably among the very first videos I ever watched on uTub… Also Coltrane live… And Cecil Taylor in gray sweatpants playing some crazy-butt solo piano stuff…

Off to the internets!