This CD celebrates veteran jazz, rock and second generation Beat poet John Sinclair's holy trinity of early beboppers: Parker, Gillespie and Monk. In 1982 Sinclair was sat waiting for a bus in his native Detroit when the big full moon caught his eye. As he says, introducing the penultimate track, ‘Carolina Moon’: “It made me think of Monk, who had just passed away, and started this project off.” Carolina-born Thelonious's radical reconstruction of the State-anthemic tune is perhaps the most glittering gem of the first series of recordings he waxed as a bandleader for Blue Note in NYC between 1947-52. Steve Fly, originally from Stourbridge, and latterly domiciled in Amsterdam on diverse collaborations with Sinclair, provides subtly harmonious 21st-century adaptations of the bop innovations chronicled in the poet's amiably voiced cadences, with multi-tracked permutations of percussion, turntables, cello-bass, ebullient flute trills and delicious glockenspiel cascades. Sinclair's delivery improvises aptly on the intermedic wordscat styles pioneered by the likes of Slim Gaillard, Jack Kerouac and Tom Waits. Monk once said, “You know, anybody can play a composition and use far-out chords and make it sound wrong. It's making it sound right that's not easy.” The delicate aural kaleidoscopes Fly and Sinclair achieve on ‘Mohawk’ wondrously overcome this particular challenge, to blend verbal and musical variations. For which new bop devotees and lifetime initiates alike should be truly thankful.