Latest Release
- MAR 29, 2024
- 12 Songs
- You Are There (Duets) · 2010
- Summerwind · 1981
- Ray Brown, Monty Alexander, Russell Malone · 2002
- Ray Brown, Monty Alexander, Russell Malone · 2002
- Rass! · 1999
- Stir It Up: The Music Of Bob Marley · 1999
- Harlem-Kingston Express (Live at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, NYC) · 2011
- Stir It Up: The Music Of Bob Marley · 1999
- The Duke Ellington Song Book (with John Clayton) · 1983
- Jazz Moods - An Intimate Evening · 1999
- 2024
- 2023
- 2022
- 2014
- 2014
Singles & EPs
- 2023
Live Albums
Compilations
Appears On
- Kristian Jørgensen Quartet
About Monty Alexander
Jamaica-born pianist Monty Alexander is a sophisticated, prolific performer with an urbane swinging style informed by the bop tradition as well as the reggae and Caribbean folk he grew up with. Influenced by pianist Oscar Peterson, Alexander initially garnered attention performing in night clubs in the late '50s. Following a move to Miami, he gained wider renown with 1965's Alexander the Great and 1976's Live! Montreux Alexander. Over the years he has continued to explore a vibrant, cross-pollinated sound, moving from straight-ahead acoustic jazz to Jamaican sounds on albums like 1980's Trio, 1994's Jamboree: Monty Alexander's Ivory and Steel, and 2011's Grammy-nominated Harlem-Kingston Express. In 2019, he brought all these influences to bear on the Thelonious Monk-inspired Wareika Hill Rastamonk Vibrations.
- HOMETOWN
- Kingston, Jamaica
- BORN
- June 6, 1944
- GENRE
- Jazz