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Thelonious Sphere Monk (October 10, 1917 - February 17, 1982) was a jazz pianist and composer. Known for his unique improvisational style and his numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire (including his classic works "'Round Midnight" and "Blue Monk"), Thelonious Monk is often regarded as a founder of bebop, although his playing style evolved away from the form. His compositions and improvisations are full of dissonant harmonies and angular melodic twists, and are impossible to...Read More >
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hypem.com
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Thelonious Monk's birth certificate
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www.monkzone.com
The Official Thelonious Sphere Monk Website
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www.howardm.net
A Thelonious Monk Website
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www.allaboutjazz.com
Thelonious Monk at All About Jazz
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IMDb entry for ''Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser''
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www.fixingahole.com
Read a review of Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane...At Carnegie Hall
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CBC.ca Article on 2006 Pulitzer Prize Winners
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A pair of Johns Hopkins and government scientists have discovered that when jazz musicians improvise, their brains turn off areas linked to self-censoring and inhibition, and turn on those that let self-expression flow. The joint research, using functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, and musician volunteers from the Johns Hopkins University’s Peabody Institute, sheds light on the creative improvisation that artists and non-artists use in everyday life, the ... MORE
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Very interesting to see Monk at work here. Tenor saxophonist Charlie Rouse solos very strongly after the melody is established and Monk sculpts a very amusing accompaniment behind him. At 1 minute 45 seconds, the camera work allows you to see the sculptor at work behind Rouse using wide piano intervals and jagged silences as his materials. For the last 90 seconds of Rouse's solo Monk stands up and does a shuffle and stagger dance away from the piano and lets the ban... MORE
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There are friends we come upon in life ... at the start we can't predict how much they will come to mean to us. Chris was brilliant, funny, outspoken, and paved his own way ... and I'm proud to be among those he called 'homebiscuit.' My heart is heavy at your loss, and you'll be dearly missed, my friend. love and peace I know you loved this one...... MORE
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Thelonious Monk's 1964 Monterey Jazz Festival performance is finally being released. Here's the performance of "Rhythm-a-Ning" from the album.
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In 1964, the year this previously unreleased set was recorded, Monk was a certified jazz superstar. Then two years into what would be a ten-year association with Columbia Records, the year began with Monk gracing the cover of the February 28, 1964 issue of TIME Magazine - only the third jazz musician in history to do so (bonus round: name the other two).
So all of this is to say Monk was about as flush with mainstream success as he ever would be when his quartet, also ... MORE
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Thelonious Sphere Monk was born on October 10th 1917 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. By the age of 5 he was uprooted and transplanted in New York City where he began to play piano. By the age of 13, he had won the weekly amateur contest at the Apollo Theater so many times that they barred him from entering again. He was only 19 when he joined the house band of Minton's Playhouse, the Harlem jazz club where he played with Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis. Fo... MORE
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...Thelonious Monk (above, left, at Minton's in NYC , circa '47) is one of those way-out-there jazz originals who, along with laying down the foundation for hard bop, tended to color his sonic pastiche outside the margins of even the loosely applied fringes of serious jazz (all the while maintaining a sense of humor that he'd sprinkle over everything he did)...in doing so, he's issued a grip of great studio work and sounded even better on live recordings...such is the case o... MORE
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I really can't say much more than that. It's a show from 1965 with Charlie Rouse on Tenor. Go to your OnDemand function on your cable box and find concert.tv under music. I just spent an amazing hour entranced by Mr. Monk. similar to:... MORE
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2I know it's hip hop thursday and all. But man............Monk live from Norway back in 1966. And this one where he just needs to wipe a little sweat off his forehead. Keeping it cool!!!
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So I bought myself a Blackberry Pearl as a holiday gift, which is a nifty device and all, and I thought it would be a fun idea to get a ringtone. This is something I was not an advocate of: the notion of reducing a record that musicians actually wrote, crafted, mixed, into a snippet that would alert me when someone was calling me, well...it just struck me as silly.
But I read that Blue Note Records had gotten into the ringtone biz, using selections from their catalog of ... MORE
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Well, hello to all out there in mog land! This is my first post, and it is pretty exciting to be on here (after looking at friends' mogs for weeks). I just joined today, so it's a little sparse right now, but more items will be added as the days and weeks go by. A little bit about me: I love music, and spend most of my spare time in record and thrift store looking for cool tunes. Finding stuff online is fun, but nothing beats looking through records or cds in a br... MORE
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Bob Edwards used to be on NPR but now hosts an interview show on XM radio called the Bob Edwards Show. He always has interesting guests but yesterday he had one of the most interesting people I had never heard of but should have.
I have talked about my deep desire to be a muse and then you see somebody who does it right. Lorraine Gordon.
In the 1930's she became a jazz fanatic. In 1942 she married Alfred Lion, the founder of Blue Note Records. Both she and Alfred... MORE
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