Monty Alexander – Solo (180g LP)

The joyful abandon of the Caribbean, the cheerful nonchalance of the bars and the wide horizon of classically trained Pianist Monty Alexander combine to produce a masterpiece which is both full of feeling and technically brilliant.

“For the most part, when I play music, I smell it and see colors. Every song has its own personality, its own soul, and if I can’t feel it, I can’t play it with feeling. I don’t understand what it is that makes me different, but I feel I have very little in common with anybody else. I seem to be my own strange character. If I’m right in my motivations and attitude, amazing things happen. … I love Jamaica. I love America. I love them both together more than each one separately. I inhabit the rhythmic aspect of both things. I can’t explain why. I do it naturally and joyfully. I am confident and proud and privileged to say that I come from a multi-cultural and multi-ethnic thing. The slogan of Jamaica is like America’s ‘E Pluribus Unum,’ ‘out of many, one people.’”

-Monty Alexander, 2014

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