Monkisms - Música

Joe Bonner Born 1948 Was A Jazz Pianist Who Lead The Bonner Party A Jazz Quartet. Born In Harlem He Grew Up In Rocky Mount NC Where He Played Sousaphone In His High School Band And Studied Piano Privately. In High School He Attended The Famed Summer Music Institutes At Virginia State College Organized By Dr. F. Nathaniel Gatlin The College's Music Department Chair An Oberlin Graduate And A Nationally Known Clarinetist. After High School He Enrolled In Virginia State Concentrating On Piano Performance Theory And Composition And Developed As A Jazz Pianist. Journeying To New York After Graduation He Played With Fellow Alum Saxophonist Harold Vick And Joined Pharoah Sanders' Band At The Height Of Its Popularity Appearing On Sanders' Album Black Unity. He Also Recorded Solo Albums In Europe On Steeplechase Denmark . He Sees Music As A Story And Feels The Accomplished Musician Must Always Have "something To Say." His Compositions And Performances Use Modal Scales With Dyamic Range Shifting And Contrasting Bright Harmonies And Melodic Figures That Transform And Return Throughout The Performance. He Loves The High End Of The Piano Adding Its Pluck To His Brilliant Improvisations. read less