I TELL YOU I MEAN IT
2015
for piano solo (formerly titled 30th Street Blur)
dedicated to Bruce Brubaker
duration: ca. 4 minutes
This work is based on a microtiming of a fragment from Thelonious Monk's improvisation on "Body and Soul" [Remake Take 3] recorded at Columbia Records, 30th Street Studio, New York City, on 31 October 1962 and released in 1998 on the CD Monk Alone: The Complete Columbia Solo Studio Recordings 1962-1968 [C2K 65495].