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Modern Art). For the second time, I heard a woman narrate the early life of the artist -- his extreme poverty in Rotterdam, his parents' livelihood in the beer industry, how he stowed away on a ship steaming to the New World. New York City was too...
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I remember when I heard Carmen McRae's album Carmen Sings Monk. McRae is a wonderful jazz vocalist, but on the album she sings lyrics that were written after the fact and grafted onto bebop tunes by the great pianist Thelonious Monk. Monk is an...
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Herbie Hancock, Jennifer Hudson, Colin Powell, Dianne Reeves, Madeleine Albright present Aretha Franklin with the Institute's Founder's Award at the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz 25th Anniversary Celebration. View Photo »
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The fictional couple at its heart -- star-crossed lovers and sometime artistic collaborators -- encounter bad luck in various forms, but Chico and Rita also have the good fortune to mingle with such real-life legends as Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk...
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More than 50 recording sessions and three discs as a leader later, the circle keeps expanding, including enough jazz critics to make The Lost and Found No. 1 for vocals on Rhapsody's 2011 poll. Her approach trades more heavily on intimacy than...
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In a recent interview with the Guardian, Denzel Washington let loose that he might be in line to star in a musician biopic. Apparently, he's been mulling over starring as Thelonious Monk in a biopic of the famed jazz pianist. Apparently, it's not it...
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Culture Shots: Remembering David Kelly, buy a bit of the Wickerman, and the tao of Thelonious Monk
Irish Times
No flowers necessary. ADVICE FOR musicians is all well and good, but when it’s Thelonious Monk doing a bit of preaching, it’s time to sit up and listen. This absolute gem popped up on my radar last week, a snapshot of advice given by Monk to Steve Lacy...
About Thelonious Monk
Wikipedia
Thelonious Sphere Monk (October 10, 1917-February 17, 1982) was an American jazz pianist and composer. Full Article
