Monkeybars pushes a reverb dreampop jazz envelope
Monkeybars pushes a reverb jazz envelope with Sonny Rollins & Coltrane influences Eli Aleinikoff of Monkeybars may originally be from D.C. but his origins sound New Orleanian all the way. Experiencing mostly jazz while growing up, the now New Yorker says his “big heroes” were Sonny Rollins (makes sense), John Coltrane, Joe Henderson (another jazz tenor), and Paul Carr, Aleinikoff’s jazz teacher who is well known in the D.C. circle as an educator, saxophonist, and festival organizer. The M...
Source: offbeat.com