60.97949
$11.91
19.70457
$17.98
4.835883
$12.13
BOOK REVIEWS COMING SOON!!!!4.548285
$39.82
Down Beat (8/00, p.27) - Ranked #5 Jazz Album in Downbeat "Critics Poll 2000".Down Beat (7/00, pp.72-3) - 4 stars out of 5 - "Now 'this' is how you pay tribute to an artist....Call it 'New Monk'....they evoke Monk's playful spirit on just about every turn of phrase..."JazzTimes (5/00, p.122) - "...The instrumental writing here is denser and more complex and these challenging songs round out the program perfectly....The masterful solos are full of surprise, humor, whimsy and courageous vulnerability..."3.934567
$15.95
3.901936
$15.77
3.901602
$9.10
Rolling Stone (4/17/97, p.80) - 4 Stars (out of 5) - "...the most precociously extreme, exuberantly screwy platter in rock history....Imagine the stark, raving dada of the Fugs bumrushing the crisp la-di-da of '60s Brit-pop..."Spin (p.81) - "Five discharged American GIs playing beat music in mid-'60s Germany....'Complication' remains the most credible antiwar song ever..."Spin (5/97, p.112) - 8 (out of 10) - "...While Paul Revere & the Raiders were still headlining Portland bowling alleys, and before `(I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone' had even been composed, the Monks were inventing a blitzkrieg bop far stronger than what soon followed..."Q (1/02, p.59) - "...Speed-crazed GIs stationed in Germany take rock'n'roll down a truly mental tunnel of primal, repetitive mechanized beats..."Mojo (Publisher) (3/01/04, p.52) - Included in Mojo's The 67 Lost Albums You Must Own! - "[B]rutal punk rants about hate and war just when the 'peace and love' vibe was really kicking in....[A] head-driller of a rock 'n' roll record.""Mojo (Publisher) (p.51) - Ranked #25 in Mojo's "The 50 Most Out There Albums Of All Time" - "Their one LP is an artefact of almost supernatural prescience..."Blender (Magazine) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "The Monks came armed with a minimalist racket, frantic social diatribes, and churlish attitude that presaged punk..."Pitchfork (Website) - "[I]n 1966, BLACK MONK TIME was beyond the cutting edge, and today it's easy to hear what made it so innovative and challenging."Record Collector (magazine) (p.92) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "[O]ne of the wildest LPs ever. The bass is set to overdrive, the portable keyboards set to stun with blank stabs and manic runs....Colossal."Signal To Noise (magazine) (p.78) - "[T]he Monks' debut album perfectly fixes the forces of sexual frustration and anti-authoritarian opposition within a template bounded by insanely catchy melody, raw aggression, and unstoppable rhythm."Uncut (magazine) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "[E]verything is as loud as everything else: feedback, martial drums, fuzz bass and an overamped banjo that sounds like the forked end of a crowbar being scratched on sheet metal."3.900308
$11.38
3.89853
$9.69
3.89853
$18.38
3.89529
$6.79
3.868706
$16.56
3.868706
$15.03
3.868706
$9.90
BOOK REVIEWS COMING SOON!!!!3.868706
$9.84
3.408615
$21.37
3.401733
$21.29
3.385118
$13.20
BOOK REVIEWS COMING SOON!!!!3.169151
$49.06
BOOK REVIEWS COMING SOON!!!!3.155053
$10.00
2.992454
$9.97
2.928113
$14.60
2.925026
$29.76
2.90153
$14.55
2.90153
$13.25
2.90153
$8.30
2.90153
$8.64
2.90153
$9.25
2.90153
$29.23
BOOK REVIEWS COMING SOON!!!!2.548461
$22.76
BOOK REVIEWS COMING SOON!!!!2.524042
$56.38
2.434221
$20.44
2.417942
$12.94
2.417942
$8.05
2.417942
$12.47
2.417942
$13.26
BOOK REVIEWS COMING SOON!!!!2.208537
$15.79
BOOK REVIEWS COMING SOON!!!!0.2388693
$103.91
0.09351418
$13.90
Down Beat (9/93, p.41) - 3 Stars - Good - "...BLIND DRIVE is pervaded by a tension in Carlberg's attack....Carlberg transforms two of Monk's tunes into ominous visions, but omits Monk's sense of rhythm..."0.07875732
$17.77
Down Beat (4/91) - 4 1/2 Stars - Very Good Plus - "...Age, experience and authenticity are on Davis' side. His renditions stick closely to Monk's compositions...remarkably original and powerful..."Musician (2/92, p.95) - "...this solo recital is a striking evocation of Monk's spirit...Splendidly recorded..."0.07875732
$13.20
3 stars out of 5 -- "INTO GREAT SILENCE hypnotically shows how its self-sufficient characters peacefully co-exist alongside nature."Total Film "This is a film not about silence, but about the heightened perception that comes with a pure quality of attention."Sight and Sound "The director, Philip Groning, orchestrates the monks' rituals into a gorgeous meandering trance..." -- Grade: B-Entertainment Weekly "[A] languid yet utterly captivating, documentary look inside a place of utter devotion."Box Office0.0724538
$36.01
0.06304823
$12.85
Entertainment Weekly (p.79) - "[Coltrane's] style is a perfect complement to the jagged beauty of Monk's music." -- Grade: AJazzTimes (p.81) - "The 1957 meetings of Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane produced some of bop's most thrilling music."0.0623357
$14.97
0.06091454
$16.47
"OF GODS AND MEN is a thrilling adventure of the spirit. Austere yet provocative, this is not only a film about faith, it also has faith that the power generated by complex moral decisions can be as unstoppable as any runaway locomotive."Los Angeles Times "Mr. Beauvois structures his film, like a liturgy, around music....OF GODS AND MEN is a drama of character, and warm humanity."Wall Street Journal "[A] beautiful, somber and rigorously intelligent new film by the French director Xavier Beauvois....OF GODS AND MEN has an unmistakably timely resonance..."New York Times 3 stars out of 4 -- "It focuses entirely on the nobility of the monks in choosing to stay with their vocation and their duty in the face of quite probable death."Chicago Sun-Times "Gravely serene and suffused with tenderness, OF GODS AND MEN takes the simple, profound stand that how a person of faith lives matters more than the circumstances of his death." -- Grade: A-Entertainment Weekly0.05926516
$14.68
"OF GODS AND MEN is a thrilling adventure of the spirit. Austere yet provocative, this is not only a film about faith, it also has faith that the power generated by complex moral decisions can be as unstoppable as any runaway locomotive."Los Angeles Times "Mr. Beauvois structures his film, like a liturgy, around music....OF GODS AND MEN is a drama of character, and warm humanity."Wall Street Journal "[A] beautiful, somber and rigorously intelligent new film by the French director Xavier Beauvois....OF GODS AND MEN has an unmistakably timely resonance..."New York Times 3 stars out of 4 -- "It focuses entirely on the nobility of the monks in choosing to stay with their vocation and their duty in the face of quite probable death."Chicago Sun-Times "Gravely serene and suffused with tenderness, OF GODS AND MEN takes the simple, profound stand that how a person of faith lives matters more than the circumstances of his death." -- Grade: A-Entertainment Weekly0.05926516
$22.10
"OF GODS AND MEN is a thrilling adventure of the spirit. Austere yet provocative, this is not only a film about faith, it also has faith that the power generated by complex moral decisions can be as unstoppable as any runaway locomotive."Los Angeles Times "Mr. Beauvois structures his film, like a liturgy, around music....OF GODS AND MEN is a drama of character, and warm humanity."Wall Street Journal "[A] beautiful, somber and rigorously intelligent new film by the French director Xavier Beauvois....OF GODS AND MEN has an unmistakably timely resonance..."New York Times 3 stars out of 4 -- "It focuses entirely on the nobility of the monks in choosing to stay with their vocation and their duty in the face of quite probable death."Chicago Sun-Times "Gravely serene and suffused with tenderness, OF GODS AND MEN takes the simple, profound stand that how a person of faith lives matters more than the circumstances of his death." -- Grade: A-Entertainment Weekly0.05926516
$35.40
