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Bud Shank Well You Needn't |
For this item you need to be able to stop for ten minutes.
We are often moving on to the next job, the next meeting, scrolling down social media, taking the next call ......'Time Out Ten' asks you to stop for ten minutes and listen to a particular piece of music; to find a time when you won't be interrupted, when you can put in/on your headphones and chill out. Ten minutes isn't long.
Written by Thelonius Monk in 1944, the story goes that Monk was going to name the tune after one of his students, singer Charlie Beamon, who apparently replied "Well you needn't".
Like many song titles, we can interpret them in our own way. It's a bit like answering the phone. It rings and we feel compelled to answer it. There are emails coming in - they demand that we deal with them. So, for just ten minutes 'well you needn't' - they will still be there later.
The version we have chosen for these ten minutes is not the Monk nor the Miles Davis version of Well, You Needn't but this Blue Note recording from saxophonist Bud Shank in 1961 featuring trumpeter Carmell Jones. Gary Peacock is the bass player, Mel Lewis is at the drum kit and Dennis Budimir is the guitarist.
Carmell Jones does not often get mentioned, perhaps because he mostly worked as a studio musician, but he played on Horace Silver's album Song For My Father. He moved to Germany in 1965, returned to Kansas City in 1980 where he worked as a teacher, and died from heart failure in 1996.
Carmell Jones
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