Hanging with Pannonica (live)

Eve Beuvens

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Pianist Eve Beuvens released her solo album “Inner Geography” in 2021 right in the middle of the Covid crisis. "Hanging with Pannonica" is a two-track EP recorded live at the Jazz Station in Brussels in March 2023 at one of the showcase concerts of the solo album. We find all the poetry and lyricism of Eve Beuvens' playing that is inspired by the essential solo playing of Monk, Herbie Hancock, Keith Jarrett and Paul Bley.

'Hanging with Pannonica' is a reference to Monk's song 'Pannonica' that Eve covered during the solo show. Thelonious Monk's music has accompanied the pianist since she was a child - music that she has always felt to be lively, percussive, subtle and sharp. Like contemporary painters that conjure up a world of textures and colours with a single brushstroke, Monk had the ability to conjure up an entire universe with a single note.
While playing his music, Beuvens explores every nook and cranny, constantly surprised by the humour that this music contains, a form of subtle second degree.
The character of Baroness Pannonica de Koeningswarter (after whom the title is named) has inspired several jazz composers. Playing the pieces dedicated to her is a way - almost a century later - of getting to know her and, in a way, offers the strange feeling of spending time in her company.
Composed in the middle of the lockdown, "Rain Drops Moving on a Window" was recorded in the studio for the album "Inner Geography", released in 2021. This live version reminds us of the pleasure of (re)playing a song.