Grachan Moncur III

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Monk in Wonderland 07:52 Tools
Space Spy 00:00 Tools
Evolution 00:00 Tools
Air Raid 00:00 Tools
Exploration 00:00 Tools
New Africa 00:00 Tools
The Coaster 00:00 Tools
Thandiwa 00:00 Tools
Gnostic 00:00 Tools
Nomadic 00:00 Tools
The Twins 00:00 Tools
When 00:00 Tools
The Coaster (2008 Digital Remaster) (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) 00:00 Tools
Love And Hate 00:00 Tools
Frankenstein 00:00 Tools
Air Raid (2008 Digital Remaster) (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) 00:00 Tools
Air Raid - Rudy Van Gelder Edition 00:00 Tools
Evolution (2008 Digital Remaster) (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) 00:00 Tools
The Coaster - Rudy Van Gelder Edition 00:00 Tools
Air Raid - 2008 Remaster 00:00 Tools
Monk In Wonderland (2008 Digital Remaster) (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) 00:00 Tools
Evolution - Rudy Van Gelder Edition 00:00 Tools
Monk In Wonderland - 1988 - Remaster 00:00 Tools
Excursion 00:00 Tools
When? 00:00 Tools
Monk In Wonderland - Rudy Van Gelder Edition 00:00 Tools
Ponte Lo 00:00 Tools
Monk In Wonderland - 2008 Remaster 00:00 Tools
Sonny's Back! 00:00 Tools
The Coaster - 2008 Remaster 00:00 Tools
Thandiwa - 2009 Digital Remaster 08:21 Tools
angela's angel 1 08:22 Tools
Evolution - 2008 Remaster 00:00 Tools
Tiny Temper 05:33 Tools
Gnostic - 2009 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Osmosis 00:00 Tools
New Africa - Original 00:00 Tools
Tiny Temper - Original 00:00 Tools
Hipnosis 00:00 Tools
Nomadic (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) (2009 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
The Twins - 2009 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Space Spy - Original 00:00 Tools
Exploration - Original 00:00 Tools
Thandiwa - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Nomadic - 2009 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
When - Original 12:09 Tools
Coaster 11:39 Tools
prologue 00:00 Tools
Aco Dei De Madrugada - Original 07:02 Tools
Saturday and Sunday 00:00 Tools
Aco Dei De Madrugada 00:00 Tools
Blue Rondo 00:00 Tools
Ghost Town 00:00 Tools
Ramblin' 00:00 Tools
Ponte Io - Original 00:00 Tools
Gnostic - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Gnostic (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) 00:00 Tools
Esoteric 00:00 Tools
right on 3 00:00 Tools
right on 1 00:00 Tools
Thandiwa (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) (2009 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
The Twins - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Blue Free 00:00 Tools
One Morning I Woke Up Very Early 00:00 Tools
Osmosis - Original 00:00 Tools
Soul 00:00 Tools
Riff Raff 00:00 Tools
Kahlil the Prophet 00:00 Tools
Slow Poke 00:00 Tools
The Breakout 00:00 Tools
Erdu 00:00 Tools
Back Home 00:00 Tools
Thandiwa (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) 00:00 Tools
Conversion Point 00:00 Tools
The Reason Why 00:00 Tools
The Coaster (2008 Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Nomadic - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Air Raid (2008 Remaster) 00:00 Tools
The Intellect 00:00 Tools
Gnostic (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) (2009 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
The Twins (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) 12:55 Tools
Thandiwa - Rudy Van Gelder Edition;2009 Digital Remaster 08:21 Tools
Evolution (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Blessing 00:00 Tools
Nomadic (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) 00:00 Tools
The Twins (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) (2009 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Monk In Wonderland (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Saturday and Sunday (alt.) 00:00 Tools
Monk In Wonderland (2008 Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Air Raid (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Gnostic - Rudy Van Gelder Edition;2009 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Saturday And Sunday (Alternate Take) 00:00 Tools
Evolution (2008 Remaster) 00:00 Tools
The Twins (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
New Africa 00:00 Tools
The Twins - Rudy Van Gelder Edition;2009 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Keep Your Heart Right (Instrumental-Live) 00:00 Tools
Nomadic - Rudy Van Gelder Edition;2009 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Band 1 00:00 Tools
Angela's Angel 00:00 Tools
Sonny's Back 00:00 Tools
Ponteio - Original 00:00 Tools
Ujamma (Live) 00:00 Tools
Band 2 00:00 Tools
G Train (for Duke Ellington) 00:00 Tools
Hilda 00:00 Tools
Blue Rondo (for Jackie McLean) 00:00 Tools
One Morning I Woke Up Very Early (Aco Dei de Madrugada) 00:00 Tools
Band 3 00:00 Tools
Bamako (Live) 00:00 Tools
Band 4 00:00 Tools
The Coaster (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
A for Pops (for Louis Armstrong) 00:00 Tools
Pazuzu (Live) 00:00 Tools
The Coaster (2008 Digital Remaster) (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) (2008 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Inner Cry Blues 00:00 Tools
Acute Motelitis (Live) 00:00 Tools
Air Raid (2008 Digital Remaster) (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) (2008 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Hope No. 2 (Live) 00:00 Tools
Ponteio 00:00 Tools
Band 1 (i. Prologue, ii. Reverend King's Wings I, iii. Medgar's Menace I, iv. Drum Transition, v. Garvey's Ghost (Space Station)) 00:00 Tools
Evolution (2008 Digital Remaster) (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) (2008 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Keep Your Heart Right 00:00 Tools
The Coaster (2008 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Sonny's Back! (for Sonny Rollins) 00:00 Tools
Band 2 (i. Angela's Angel I, ii. Drum Transition) 00:00 Tools
New Africa - Queen Tamam/New Africa/Black Call/Ethiopian Market 00:00 Tools
Monk In Wonderland (1988-Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Band 3 (i. Right On I, ii. Angela's Angel II, iii.Right On II, iv. Reverend King's Wings II, v. Medgar's Menace II, vi. Drum Transition, vii. African Percussion Ensemble) 00:00 Tools
Nomadic (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Ujamma 00:00 Tools
Twins 00:00 Tools
Monk In Wonderland - 1988 Remaster 00:00 Tools
Inner City Blues 00:00 Tools
Thandiwa (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Air Raid (2008 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Evolution (2008 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Band 4 (i. Right On III, ii. Angela's Angel III (Jamboree), iii. Drum Transition, iv. Amen Cadence, v. Epilogue: Excuse Me, Mr Justice) 00:00 Tools
Sonny's Back! (For Sonny Rollins)- I: Sonny's Back! Ii: Clifford Browning 00:00 Tools
New Africa: Queen Tamam/New Africa/Black Call/Ethiopian Market 00:00 Tools
New Africa: Queen Tamam / New Africa / Black Call / Ethiopian Market 00:00 Tools
Sonny's Back - 45-RPM Take 00:00 Tools
Bamako 00:00 Tools
New Africa: 1st Movement: Queen Tamam/2nd Movement: New Africa/3rd Movement: Black Call/4th Movement: Ethiopian Market 00:00 Tools
New Africa - 1st Movement: Queen Tamam/New Africa - 2nd Movement: ... 00:00 Tools
Gnostic: Grachan Moncur III 00:00 Tools
D2 - Tiny Temper 00:00 Tools
Monk In Wonderland (2008 Digital Remaster) (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) (2008 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
02 Space Spy 00:00 Tools
Saturday and Sunday [Alternate Take] 00:00 Tools
Acute Motelitis 00:00 Tools
A1 - New Africa 00:00 Tools
B2 - When 00:00 Tools
A2 - Space Spy 00:00 Tools
Sonny's Back (2004) 00:00 Tools
D1 - Osmosis 09:33 Tools
When ? 00:00 Tools
Monk In Wonderland (2008 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
C2 - Ponte Io (Traditional Bresilian) 00:00 Tools
01 New Africa 00:00 Tools
Aco Dei De Madrugada (One Morning I Waked Up Very Early...) 00:00 Tools
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Grachan Moncur III (born June 3, 1937) is an American jazz trombonist. He was one of the first free jazz trombonists, as well as a prolific composer. He is the son of jazz bassist Grachan Moncur II. Born and raised in Newark, New Jersey, USA, Grachan began playing the cello at age nine, and switched to the trombone at eleven. In high school he attended the Laurinburg Institute in North Carolina, the private school where Dizzy Gillespie studied. While still in school he began sitting in with touring jazz musicians on their way through town, such as Art Blakey and Jackie McLean, with whom he formed a lasting friendship. After high school he toured with Ray Charles (1959-1962), Art Farmer and Benny Golson's Jazztet (1962), and Sonny Rollins, and played and recorded with Marion Brown, Joe Henderson, and Archie Shepp. He took part in two classic Jackie McLean albums in the early 1960s, One Step Beyond and Destination Out, which led to two influential albums of his own for Blue Note Records, Evolution (1963) with Jackie McLean and Lee Morgan, and Some Other Stuff (1964) with Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter. After leaving Blue Note, Grachan recorded with other avant-garde players like Archie Shepp, Beaver Harris and Roswell Rudd (the other big name in free jazz trombone), as well as recording several albums of his own for European labels, including New Africa (1969) and Echoes of Prayer (1974), which featured a full orchestra plus vocalists and jazz soloists. Unfortunately, he was plagued by health problems and copyright disputes, and spent a long period in obscurity. Through the 1980s he recorded with Cassandra Wilson (1985), appeared occasionally with the Paris Reunion Band and Frank Lowe, and recorded another album, Soul Connection, in 1983, but mostly concentrated on teaching. In 2004 he re-emerged with a new album, Exploration on Capri Records featuring Grachan's compositions arranged for an octet including Tim Hagans and Gary Bartz. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.