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Thelonious Monk playing “Honeysuckle Rose”.
Haruki Murakami • Norwegian Wood
A genius is a man most like himself.
-Thelonius Monk
Monk’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
Thelonious Monk was a particular favorite. Monk’s Music was my favorite of his albums.
Haruki Murakami • Killing Commendatore: A novel
Thelonious Monk - Live In Paris 1964
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An introduction to Jazz Piano in 25 albums. A thread🧵
This list serves as a great starting point for anyone with a big love for piano tunes...
1. Thelonious Monk - Solo Monk https://t.co/2iV1XOKYer
“As my friends paint that picture, you will be subjectively giving form to what my friends already comprehend. Think of Thelonious Monk. Thelonious Monk did not get those unusual chords as a result of logic or theory. He opened his eyes wide, and scooped those chords out from the darkness of his consciousness. What is important is not creating
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