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 ...
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Thelonious Sphere Monk (October 10, 1917-February 17, 1982) was an American jazz pianist and composer. Widely considered one of the most important musicians in jazz, Monk had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "Epistrophy", "'Round Midnight", "Blue Monk", "Straight No Chaser" and "Well, You Needn't". Often regarded as a fo...
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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 a...
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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...
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By all rights 'Brilliant Corners' existed once and only once. They laid it down and walked away never thinking they could do it again. Once and done, ala hara kiri, fin-eato and yet here we are. Your listening and I'm riffing.The music plays.And I'm wondering where all of the brilliance has gone.You built an alright world, not perfect, but alright.You don't ask for it, they just come. Sometime...
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"How do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways..." could be the title for all the rambling diatribes against jazz offered by my friend D. whenever our conversations turn to the subject of music that I like. (It so happens that I'm quite fond of the music of Satchmo)To start with, D. doesn't like the straw-hatted-clarinet-and-horn-blowing music which he says must have been the classic form of the ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 peaceI know you loved this one...
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