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	Jamaican Pianist Monty Alexander
		Monty Alexander born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica began piano lessons at the age of six.
		In August 1996, Monty was invited to the Verbier Festival in Switzerland to perform George Gershwin’s "Rhapsody in Blue" with a full symphony orchestra directed by Bobby McFerrin.
		On his Telarc debut, Monty was joined by the Jamaican group Gumption, led by Rolando Wilson on drums, Trevor McKenzie on bass, Robert Angus on guitar, and Dwight Dawes on keyboard.
	www.pacosvillage.com /articles/archives/June2004/Music_Feature.htm (521 words)

	Monty Alexander - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Monty Alexander (born Montgomery Bernard Alexander on June 6, 1944 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican pianist.
		Alexander discovered the piano at the age of 4, taking classical music lessons at 6 and became interested in jazz piano at the age of 14.
		Alexander recorded with Milt Jackson in 1969, with Ernest Ranglin in 1974 and in Europe the same year with Ed Thigpen.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Monty_Alexander (333 words)

	Amazon.com: Monty Meets Sly & Robbie: Music: Monty Alexander,Sly Dunbar,Robbie Shakespeare (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Alexander and this dynamic duo, augmented by keyboardist Handel Tucker, "Jamaicanize" several soul-jazz classics--including Lee Morgan's "The Sidewinder," Bobby Timmons's "Moanin'," and Herbie Hancock's "Chameleon"--into a unique worldbeat statement.
		Now with Jamaican jazz pianist monty alexander, they are posed to make an impact on jazz fans, too.
		Monty has a lot more to offer than this.
	www.amazon.com /Monty-Meets-Sly-Robbie-Alexander/dp/B00004SUF9 (959 words)

	Monty Alexander - Biography - AOL Music
		Monty Alexander long ago combined together the influence of Oscar Peterson with the soul of Gene Harris and Nat "King" Cole to form his own appealing and personable style.
		Monty Alexander began piano lessons when he was six and he played professionally in Jamaican clubs while still a teenager; his band, Monty and the Cyclones, was quite popular locally during 1958-1960.
		Alexander, who often pays tribute to his Jamaican heritage, performs regularly with his own trio and swings hard in his own voice.
	music.aol.com /artist/monty-alexander/5995/biography (264 words)

	Bennett Morgan & Associates, Ltd. - Monty Alexander (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Monty Alexander was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica where he began piano lessons at the age of six.
		In August of 1996, Monty was invited to the Verbier Festival in Switzerland to perform George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" with a full symphony orchestra directed by Bobby McFerrin.
		Monty Alexander is now performing in a variety of contexts: as a soloist, in a trio format, with orchestras and big bands, and a return to his roots with the unique jazz reggae sounds of "Goin' Yard" (on the Telarc record label).
	www.bennettmorgan.com /artistinfo/montyalexander.html (444 words)

	Monty Alexander: Jazz Meets Jamaica Uptown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Born in Kingston in 1944, Alexander was naturally immersed in the local music scene of the late 50s, which was deeply influenced by post-war American jazz and RandB in addition to the folk rhythms of mento and its neo-African cousins.
		Further encouraged by his father, Alexander took his prodigious skills on the piano, via the naturally portable accordion, to the new Kingston studios where he was an unknowing participant in sessions that laid the cornerstone for an internationally influential continuum of genres.
		Alexander was discovered in America, with seemingly cinematic serendipity, by Jilly Rizzo and Frank Sinatra, which led to a residency at Jilly's in New York.
	www.columbia.edu /~cv2109/jazzmeetsja.html (2949 words)

	The official Monty Alexander Web site
		Alexander came to the United States in the end of 1961.
		Monty has drawn from the varied sources of his musical experiences to record the next six albums for Telarc; these include sessions in classic trio format such as Impressions in Blue, as well as recordings of live concerts sets such as Goin’ Yard and the most recent release Live at the Iridium (2005).
		Separate and apart from being the best musician he can be, Alexander's most important objective – whether his vehicle is reggae or jazz or soul, small combo or symphony – is to express the joy of music to all within earshot, regardless of prevailing differences in taste or culture.
	www.montyalexander.com (851 words)

	CD Review of Monty Alexander - Live at the Iridium on Telarc @ jazzreview.com
		Though Alexander doesn’t read music—like other musicians such as Dr. Lonnie Smith who strongly affect listeners, particularly in live settings—he long ago crossed over into the realm where the instrument, no matter what it may be, becomes the means for expressing what the musician feels in ways that words can’t.
		As Alexander has often noted, he likes nothing more than seeing his audience sway as one, their differences dispelled by the music, as they are charmed by the spirit of Alexander’s personality channeled through the piano.
		The fun that Alexander has with the music spreads to his audience, and the result is that his is a style that has become firmly established, immediately recognizable when he plays from the energy that he invests in each performance to his synthesis of Jamaican rhythms and American jazz.
	www.jazzreview.com /cdreview.cfm?ID=8753 (491 words)

	Monty Alexander With Special Guest Ernest Ranglin Rocksteady Review By Karl Lozier
		Monty's stylistic approach is once again in evidence on this disc continuing what has made him increasingly popular after joining Telarc's growing stable of outstanding performers.
		On this recording Monty is using the "piano melodica" which features a miniature keyboard with approximately one key for every letter of the alphabet.
		Monty Alexander with his great sense of jazz and reggae rhythms was right there in front of me with his piano and melodica.
	www.enjoythemusic.com /magazine/music/0404/alexander.htm (1168 words)

	Monty Alexander: Concrete Jungle--The Music of Bob Marley
		Alexander, however, arrived in 1961, where he worked in Vegas and eventually proceeded to New York where he proved a jazz pianist with a rhythmic edge, performing with Frank Sinatra and Milt Jackson.
		Alexander has a swinging style that sometimes approximates that of Wynton Kelly or Ahmad Jamal, but he also leans heavily on his Caribbean heritage, and on reggae music in particular, having recorded such reggae-laced projects as Stir It Up, Rocksteady, Goin’ Yard, and Monty Meets Sly and Robbie.
		Alexander brings his piano technique and his real feel for American swing to authentic reggae rhythms and the results are urbane yet truly smokin’.
	www.jazzitude.com /alexander_concrete.htm (575 words)

	Monty Alexander Goes “Yard” (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica where he began piano lessons at the age of six, Alexander as a teenager often sat in with the bands of prominent musicians.
		He formed a band called Monty and the Cyclones, which recorded songs that charted on the Jamaican hit parade from 1958 to 1960.
		Alexander performs in a variety of contexts: as a soloist, in a trio format, and with orchestras and big bands.
	www.yamaha.com /publications/accent/Accent303/13_monty.html (477 words)

	SoundStage! Monty Alexander with Ernest Ranglin - Rocksteady
		By teaming Alexander up with Jamaican guitar legend (and old friend) Ernest Ranglin, Telarc allows these two musicians to dip their oars once again deep into the wellspring of inspiration that is their homeland, Jamaica.
		This disc is Alexander and Ranglin’s homage to the music of their youth -- a look back at the heyday of Jamaica’s famous Studio One, under the musical direction of legendary producer Clement Coxsone Dodd.
		Monty, as a boy, used to "tief out" (that is, sneak off) from high school to hang at Studio One, and was eventually allowed to join in and showcase his abilities, amazing even at that time.
	www.soundstage.com /music/reviews/rev576.htm (719 words)

	Monty Alexander (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		In the past decade alone, Alexander has maintained a busy schedule with projects spanning multiple genres and styles.
		A regular fixture at the Montreux Jazz Festival since 1976, Alexander performed at the Swiss festival in 1993 and 1994 with opera singer Barbara Hendricks in a program of Duke Ellington compositions.
		Apart from being the best musician he can be, Alexander's most important objective is to express the joy of music to all within earshot, regardless of prevailing differences in taste or culture.
	www.jazzartsfm.com /program/MontyAlexander.htm (490 words)

	Reggae Directory - Monty Alexander
		In his teens Monty was playing the piano with musical colleagues Tommy McCook and Rolando Alphonso and recording with vocalists like The Blues Busters and Jackie Edwards.
		Decades later Monty has built a musical history that possesses that Jamaican grit complimented with a gigantic dose of Jazz work.
		Presently Monty Alexander is recording with Telarc Records based out of Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
	www.reggaedirectory.com /artist/Monty_Alexander.htm (862 words)

	Telarc International: Monty Alexander
		Alexander’s My America, released in 2002, includes guest appearances by guitarist John Pizzarelli and vocalists Freddy Cole and Kevin Mahogany.
		Alexander revisited his roots with Rocksteady, a collaborative album with reggae guitarist Ernest Ranglin release on Telarc in 2004.
		The album is a tribute to the ska movement that flourished in Jamaica’s Studio One (the island version of Motown) in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s and eventually spread throughout the world.
	telarc.com /biography/bios.asp?aid=1&gsku=3581&... (971 words)

	Monty Alexander & Ernest Ranglin: Rocksteady
		To some Alexander’s genteel style might seem too polite for this type of dance music, but his playful use of space and deft reharmonization brings a new dimension to these classic songs.
		Though the songs maintain the ska and rocksteady rhythms of their original versions, this is unmistakably a jazz-oriented performance, as the use of acoustic bass attests.
		Alexander and Ranglin play the material with obvious affection and enthusiasm for the originals, but that doesn’t stop them from applying their full bag of technique and soulful improvisation, learned from playing straight ahead jazz.
	www.jazzitude.com /alexander_rocksteady.htm (350 words)

	Monty Alexander, Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare's "Monty Meets Sly & Robbie" SACD reviewed on ...
		Noted jazz pianist Monty Alexander goes back to his Jamaican roots in this interesting team-up with ultimate reggae rhythm section Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare.
		The performances are good from virtually all concerned, and most of the time Monty’s fluid piano-playing works successfully with the bass-and-drums groove, although in some cases the marriage is a little less at ease, with the two ends of the axis a bit at odds with each other.
		The drum fills and some of the percussion elements are rather too electronic for my taste – there were occasions when a sizzling drum machine across the back was really distracting, for example, and almost sounded like a technical problem with my replay equipment.
	www.avrev.com /music/revs/montysacd.shtml (678 words)

	The Monty Alexander Trio Impressions in Blue by Karl Lozier
		As an aside, the name of his band in Jamaica was called "Monty and the Cyclones".
		Here, Monty Alexander evidently arranged the introductory passages note for note and playing the piano in a manner consistent with how a guitarist does it.
		Monty was given almost full rein and often is really "playing into the keys" with a great deal of dynamics.
	www.enjoythemusic.com /magazine/music/0703/alexander.htm (714 words)

	Monty Alexander News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		When pianist Monty Alexander led his trio on to the stage...
		The pianist Monty Alexander left Jamaica for the United States in the early 1960's, when he was still in his teens.
		The vaunted Jamaican jazz pianist Monty Alexander returns to his roots yet again for the follow-up to his 1999 "Stir It Up" album, drawing inspiration from the Lion of Reggae's catalog.
	www.topix.net /who/monty-alexander (500 words)

	Monty Alexander : Alexander the Great - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		This out-of-print Pacific Jazz Lp was pianist Monty Alexander's first album, cut when he was 21.
		Even at that early stage, Alexander had very impressive technique and his Oscar Peterson-influenced style was starting to become distinctive.
		Performing live in Los Angeles with bassist Victor Gaskin and drummer Paul Humphrey, Alexander is heard in top form on such songs as "John Brown's Body," "Comin' Home Baby," "If I Were A Bell" and "Autumn Leaves"; hopefully this enjoyable and somewhat historical set will be reissued on CD by Blue Note eventually.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,42077,00.html (162 words)

	Upcoming.org: Monty Alexander and Spirit of Jamaica at Dimitriou's Jazz Alley (Thursday, March 2, 2006)
		In 1999, Jamaican born jazz pianist Monty Alexander made his Telarc debut with the release of Stir It Up, a tribute to the music of reggae icon Bob Marley.
		Since then, Alexander has assembled a diverse body of work with recordings ranging from straight-ahead jazz to the American songbook to world music.
		Alexander came to the United States toward the end of 1961.
	upcoming.org /event/56808 (457 words)

	Recording review: Monty Alexander (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Jamaican-born pianist Monty Alexander would probably be a logical choice to make a CD of piano-led versions of Bob Marley songs, and in his hands it works.
		Most of the songs are done fairly straight, with the piano stating the melody over a supple rhythm section, soloing, and then re-stating the melody.
		The use of the piano as a lead voice and lack of a vocalist almost makes this sound like "reggae-lite" at times, but there are a few moments where Alexander and the rhythm section lift off to a higher level.
	www.rootsworld.com /reviews/monty99.html (247 words)

	Ink 19 :: Monty Alexander
		It would be oh-so-easy to misstep and distill pere Marley's work into weightless jazz fluff, but pianist Monty Alexander pulls together a set of punky reggae music into sly comping chord changes.
		Throwing in little bits and pieces like a hint of "Eleanor Rigby" in the midst of "Jammin'," Alexander's humor is irresistible, and his Jamaican roots clearly show in his love and respect of the groove.
		The blend of Jamaican and jazz musicians is ear-opening, and not to be missed.
	ink19.com /issues_F/99_08/wet_ink/music_ab/057_monty_alexander.shtml (105 words)

	Amazon.ca: Monty Alexander's Ivory & Stee: Music: Monty Alexander (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Recording more than a score of excellent albums, this his latest release is a 2-CD set combining soulful, hard-bopping jazz with Jamaican calypsos and West Indian grooves.
		Alexander, Jamaican born pianist shares his contagiously enjoyable style with two of his best - "Ivory and Steel" and "Jamboree", now in one package "Island Grooves".
		Note, Alexander's Jamaica fueled jazz piano pyrotechnics, the distinctively west Indian sound of the steel drums and an eclectic collection of songs...ranging from calypso-infused jazz standards to Alexander originals, with creative twists on traditional Jamaican songs.
	www.amazon.ca /Monty-Alexanders-Ivory-Stee-Alexander/dp/B00004YNEJ (303 words)

	Jahworks.Org Interviews \| An Interview with Monty Alexander
		Born in 1940, Monty Alexander was playing with some of his hometown's best-known musicians by the time he was a teenager, including his own popular group, Monty and the Cyclones.
		Alexander played for a time in Las Vegas and later at a New York City club owned by a friend of Frank Sinatra.
		His most recent recording is Goin' Yard, featuring Alexander and six fellow Jamaican musicians.
	www.jahworks.org /music/interview/alexander_monty.html (178 words)

	Monty Alexander brings trio to Milliken Auditorium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		In his 40-year career, Alexander has played with such legends as Frank Sinatra, Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins and Quincy Jones.
		His band, "Monty and the Cyclones," had several songs on the Jamaican charts in the late 1950s.
		Tickets for Alexander's Jan. 7 concert are $25 in advance and $28 at the door.
	www.record-eagle.com /2005/dec/30monty.htm (499 words)

	Monty Alexander \| Concrete Jungle: The Music of Bob Marley
		Seven years after Monty Alexander's first Bob Marley tribute, Stir it Up (his Telarc debut), the pianist interprets Marley's music again on Concrete Jungle, performing eleven of the legendary reggae artist’s compositions and one of his own.
		But the infectious rhythms of Alexander’s Jamaican homeland are what cast the widest shadow.
		Alexander’s “Selam” closes the album with a brief solo piano tribute all wrapped up in blankets and tears, a heartfelt salute to a figure who left his imprint on popular music for eternity.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=21111 (421 words)

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