I want to share with you some memories about a great Jazz musician from my own land. Enrique "Mono" ("Monkey") Villegas was a very talented man, highly opinionated, a little freakish -some could say- turbulent, bizarre,original (he recorded a "jazzistic", strange and marvelous version of Chopin's preludes, which he called the "metamorfosis of Chopin 23 preludes")
I have many recordings of this great pianist, and I love him very much. I appreciate, in particular, his absolute honesty which was almost always -as it muts be!-very politically incorrect!
For example, he said at an interview that he believed that most popular singers were famous and well heard, because about 85% of people simply have a "banana in the ear"!
A huge musician, that I will be remembering for you more than once!
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