{"product_id":"jon-batiste-monk-meditations","title":"Jon Batiste - Monk Meditations","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn Monk Meditations, Jon Batiste slows Thelonious Monk's music to a contemplative hush, creating the third volume of his solo piano series and perhaps the first new-age record ever drawn from Monk.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReleased alongside the more extroverted Monk Movements, this companion album focuses on what Batiste calls the spiritual underpinning of Monk's writing. He has suggested it works for meditation, conversation, prayer or sleep, and the record honors that intent with long, patient lines and clearly drawn chord progressions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMonk's knotty genius is still there, just heard from a different angle. \"Crepuscule with Nellie\", his love song for his wife, unfolds with tender restraint, while \"Monk's Mood\" becomes a slow, glowing reverie that seems to hang in the air.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLead single \"Always Know\" opens the set and returns as an outro, framing the album like a breath in and a breath out, and \"Reflections\" drifts with a quiet, almost weightless calm. There's no rush anywhere here, just open space and a pianist listening closely to every note he plays.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's a gentle, unexpected side of both artists, and it rewards close attention as much as background listening. Best heard late at night with the lights down low, it makes a fine counterweight to its livelier sibling.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alliance Entertainment","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67761830658338,"sku":"199957930819","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1020\/2080\/8994\/files\/Jon_Batiste-Monk_Meditations.jpg?v=1794309811","url":"https:\/\/soulfulvinyl.com\/products\/jon-batiste-monk-meditations","provider":"Soulful Vinyl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}