Monday, October 12th
Why not begin the week with two minutes of genius?
Thelonious Monk (1917-1982, piano), “Epistrophy” (T. Monk), live (excerpt)
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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
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2020
Saturday, October 10th
alone
Sam Newsome (1965-, soprano saxophone), live, published 10/9/20
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radio
Today, the birthday of Thelonious Monk (1917-1982), it’s all Monk all day at WKCR (Columbia University).
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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2020
Wednesday, August 5th
like nobody else
Thelonious Monk (1917-1982, piano), “Just a Gigolo” (I. Caesar & L. Casucci), live, 1963
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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2019
Wednesday, December 11th
Playing, and talking, Monk.
Jason Moran (piano), Frank Lacy (trombone), Bob Stewart (tuba), Nasheet Waits (drums), et al., live, Washington, D.C., 2015
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other day, Chicago
2019
Monday, November 18th
What better way to begin the week?
Thelonious Monk (1917-1982, piano), “Don’t Blame Me” (J. McHugh, D. Fields), live, Denmark, 1966
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other day, Chicago (Columbus Park)
2018
Saturday, September 29th
tomorrow night in Chicago
He’s playing at the Hyde Park Jazz Festival.
Jason Moran (piano), “Thelonious” (T. Monk), live, Minneapolis, 2009
2017
Saturday, October 21st
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Thelonious Monk Quartet (TM, piano; Charlie Rouse, tenor saxophone; Butch Warren, bass; Frankie Dunlop, drums), “Just a Gigolo” (I. Caesar, L. Casucci), “Bolivar Blues” (T. Monk), live, Tokyo, 1963
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Berenice Abbott (1898-1991), Designer’s Window, Bleecker Street, New York, 1947
2017
Wednesday, October 18th
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Thelonious Monk Quartet (TM, piano; Charlie Rouse, tenor saxophone; Butch Warren, bass; Frankie Dunlop, drums), “Evidence” (T. Monk), live, Tokyo, 1963
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Berenice Abbott (1898-1991), Fifth Ave., Nos. 4, 6, 8, New York, 1936
2017
Monday, October 16th
What better way to start the week?
Thelonious Monk Quartet (TM, piano; Charlie Rouse, tenor saxophone; Butch Warren, bass; Frankie Dunlop, drums), “Epistrophy” (T. Monk), live, Tokyo, 1963
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Berenice Abbott (1898-1991), Red River logging project, California, August, 1943
2017
Tuesday, May 23rd
never enough
Thelonious Monk Quartet (TM, piano; Charlie Rouse, tenor saxophone; Butch Warren, bass; Frankie Dunlop, drums), live, Tokyo, 1963
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Men are children. They must be pardoned for everything, except malice.
—Joseph Joubert, 1754-1824 (The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, translated from French by Paul Auster)
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