Post #474

История про Заппу напоминает, в первую очередь, конечно, историю про Курехина и "утюгон", но ее все уже слышали, поэтому давайте расскажу про Курехина и Монка. Kan gives this description following an account of Kuryokhin’s duo with John Zorn at the famous New York Knitting Factory Club in 1988. Kuryokhin kept on breaking aggressively into Zorn’s jazz improvisations with Tango, Waltz and other music pieces that were typical for PM performances, but completely out of place in the given situation. According to Kan, Kuryokhin botched his performance at the prestigious Telonius Monk competition two weeks later with the same defying attitude. Kushnir writes that Kuryokhin was so convinced that he would receive the award that he didn’t even bother to prepare his performance. And when he performed, he didn’t play Monk, as the regulations required, but parodied the candidate who had played before him. However, the jury just politely thanked him and left the room. Among these highly professional jury members, his love for a good “styob” was not appreciated. A “styob” may be funny, but as an antithesis it is basically a reaction – an afterthought. Мне казалось, что Курёхин сам ее где-то рассказывал, но я что-то не нашел видео( P.S. чуть не сделал пост про Монка без песни Монка. Держите: Thelonious Monk - Locomotive