Organ Monk Trio — live event
Greg Lewis has been hauling his Hammond organ and Leslie cabinet to LunÀtico since our inception. If you’ve never seen him, it’s time to correct that. And yes he crushes the Thelonious Monk playbook but his version of Beyoncé’s I’ve Been Drinking is not to be missed!Greg Lewis ~ Hammond OrganRussell Carter ~ DrumsKevin McNeal ~ GuitarBar LunÀtico wholeheartedly agrees with this rave review from Ben Ratliff in the New York Times:"Thelonious Monk's sense of harmony was so fresh and savory that it would be nice to have individual moments of it frozen, expanded and prolonged, just to let the sounds get deeper in the ear, to let those mixed colors intensify and explode. One could do it digitally, feeding Monk's music through the right tools, but an organ player can do it in real time by keeping the keys pressed down. The New York-area organist Greg Lewis has made a recent project out of transferring Thelonious Monk's repertory to the Hammond C3 organ. He plays in a quartet with tenor saxo
Starts: 2025-08-09T21:00:53Z
Ends: 2025-08-09T23:30:53Z
Where: 486 Halsey Street, New York 11233, United States
Price: $10.0