![]() ![]() Tolliver treated it as a work of impregnable authority, the pianist Jason Moran came at it sideways, seeking a connection with its creator. ![]() The concert on Friday, called “In My Mind: Monk at Town Hall, 1959,” more or less followed the 1959 program too. For the encore version of the same song, he counted off a hyperthyroid tempo unnaturally fast, but a good way to end an academic night. But it got away from him, dragged under by soloists. Tolliver likes a big, battling sound, and as conductor he drove the band hard here, punching the air for brass accents he gave the song a sense of vengeance. The peak of the 1959 concert, and of Thursday’s show, was Monk’s piece “Little Rootie Tootie” (with a full-band performance of Monk’s solo from a previous occasion). ![]()
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