{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Podcast 300: "Straight, No Chaser"","description":"This is the 300th podcast for my show! It hardly seems possible that when I started eight years ago I would have this much to show for it, and over 1.1 million downloads from around the world.\nTo celebrate, I thought I would take a moment to examine the song from which the blog takes its title - "Straight, No Chaser" by Thelonious Monk. The tune was originally recorded by Monk for Blue Note Records in 1951, and was written as a basic 12 bar blues in B flat. Much of its longevity comes from the creative use of chromatics in the melody, and syncopation in the rhythms. \nMusic educator Mark C. Gridley wrote about Monk's composition style: "Monk employed simple compositional devices with very original results. His ‘Straight, No Chaser’ involves basically only one idea played again and again, each time in a different part of the measure and with a different ending."\nClick here to listen to a few of my favorite versions of the song, including takes from the following albums:\nGerry Mulligan and Thelonious Monk – Mulligan Meets Monk. \nMiles Davis – Milestones.\nMarian McPartland – Bossa Nova + Soul.\nLarry Coryell – Laid Back and Blues.\nBen Sidran Hammond Quartet – Cien Noches.\nJane Ira Bloom – Art and Aviation.\nKeith Jarrett – The Complete Live at the Blue Note.\n Bill Evans – What’s New – Bill Evans with the Flutists.","author_name":"Straight No Chaser - A Jazz Show","author_url":"http:\/\/straightnochaserjazz.libsyn.com","html":"