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Thelonious Monk
Musician
• Jazz Pianist
– Age nine
• Composer
• Founder of Bebop
Colleagues
• Coleman Hawkins Quartet
• John Coltrane
• Minton’s Playhouse
– “hard-swinging”
– Dizzy, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis
• Influences:
– Duke, James P. Johnson
Style
• Improvisational
• Untraditional approach
– Angular
• “highly percussive attack with abrupt, dramatic
use of silences and hesitations”
– syncopated
• Music was too ‘difficult’ for mass market
– Duke Ellington --> Later Columbia
Appearance
• “hip” suits
• Hats and sunglasses
• Dance Breaks
• By the ‘50’s audiences had caught up with Monk
– 1st seemed strange, ahead of time, and unpopular
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmhP1R
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– Hat/Pauses/Syncopated & Unexpected Chords
• iTunes “Round Midnight”
• Straight No Chaser
– Clint Eastwood
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