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Thelonious Monk playing “Honeysuckle Rose”.
Haruki Murakami • Norwegian Wood
A genius is a man most like himself.
-Thelonius Monk
Thelonious Monk was a particular favorite. Monk’s Music was my favorite of his albums.
Haruki Murakami • Killing Commendatore: A novel
“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 some
... See moreHaruki Murakami • Killing Commendatore: A novel
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 mus... See more
Some music is just imagined
"Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent."
—Miles Davis
Modern Jazz Quartet,
Ted Gioia • How to Listen to Jazz
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
arranger Gil Evans,