Thelonious Monk
Pianist and composer of 'Round Midnight' and 'Straight, No Chaser', whose angular melodies, percussive attack and deliberate dissonance rewired bebop's vocabulary.
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About Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, in 1917 and grew up in Manhattan. In the early 1940s he was house pianist at Minton's Playhouse, where the after-hours sessions helped shape bebop, and he went on to record for Blue Note, Prestige, Riverside and Columbia.
His tunes, among them 'Ruby, My Dear', 'Epistrophy', 'Well, You Needn't' and 'Blue Monk', became jazz standards, built on odd intervals, sudden silences and whole-tone runs. After years without a New York cabaret card he led a celebrated 1957 quartet with John Coltrane at the Five Spot, and he later worked for a long stretch with tenor saxophonist Charlie Rouse. He appeared on the cover of Time in 1964 and died in 1982.
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Thelonious Monk plays jazz and bebop.
What was Thelonious Monk's first album?
Thelonious Monk's first album was Genius of Modern Music, Volume 1 (1951). The latest is Round Midnight (2016).