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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 mus... 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
"At this time the fashion is to bring something to jazz that I reject. They speak of freedom. But one has no right, under pretext of freeing yourself, to be illogical and incoherent by getting rid of structure and simply piling a lot of notes one on top of the other. There’s no beat anymore. You can’t keep time with your foot. There’s a new idea th... See more
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Ted Gioia • How to Listen to Jazz
“Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.”
― Miles Davis
― Miles Davis