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Pianist Jason Moran goes beyond Monk’s mood with ‘In My Mind’

NEC students join pianist Moran in multimedia project

By Siddhartha Mitter

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  January 29, 2012

When Thelonious Monk played his legendary Town Hall concert in 1959, he was already famous in the jazz world. But this concert brought him out from the underground and put his music in a whole new context. Fifty years later, in 2009, one of today’s most innovative jazz pianists, Jason Moran, created “In My Mind,’’ a multimedia experiment involving narration, graphic art, video and still photography honoring the milestone performance. Moran performs the work at NEC on Thursday.

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