Thelonious Monk

Thelonious Sphere Monk (October 10, 1917 to 17 February 1982) was a jazz pianist and composer. Widely regarded as one of the most important musicians in jazz – is one of only five jazz musicians is on the cover of Time  – Monaco had a unique improvisational style and many contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including Let's Cool One by Thelonious Monk Epistrophy,   Round Midnight,  Blue Monk,   Straight, No Chaser  and  Well, you do not need. As is often the founder of bebop, Monk’s playing style later evolved away from that form. His compositions and improvisations are full of dissonant harmonies and angular melodic twists, and it is impossible to distinguish the Monk’s unorthodox approach to the piano, which together a very percussive attack of sudden, the dramatic use of silences and hesitations, a style dubbed the melodic Thunk  his wife Nellie. [2] Monk was born October 10, 1917 Rocky Mount, North Carolina, the son of Thelonious and Barbara Monk, two years after his sister Marian.

A brother, Thomas was born a few years later. In 1922 the family moved to 243 West 63rd Street, Manhattan. Monk began studying piano at age six. Although he had no formal training and eavesdropped on his sister’s piano lessons, was largely self-taught. Monk visited Stuyvesant High School, but never completed. He briefly toured the evangelist as a teenager, playing the church organ, and in his late teens he began to find work playing jazz.

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