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Thelonious Monk playing “Honeysuckle Rose”.
Haruki Murakami • Norwegian Wood
Thelonious Monk - Live In Paris 1964
youtube.comMonk’s intimate, exhaustive and poetic improvisations pioneered new languages of modern jazz and helped birth bebop as a seminal art form. “And then there was the silence. There is nothing more daunting and mysterious. We flood silence with chatter, we fill it with noise or notes rather than let it reveal what it knows or just let it be,” wrote... See more
Some music is just imagined
Willie “The Lion” Smith
Ted Gioia • How to Listen to Jazz
Thelonious Monk was a particular favorite. Monk’s Music was my favorite of his albums.
Haruki Murakami • Killing Commendatore: A novel
Kind of Blue —the Miles Davis record that is typically considered the defining statement of post-bop modern jazz.
Ted Gioia • John Coltrane's Love Is Still Supreme at Age 60
John Clark – Faces 1981, Vinyl - Discogs
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creator of the Smithsonian Museum’s “Programs in Black Culture,” and one of the leading authorities on Black American music culture,