Thelonious Monk

Thelonious Sphere Monk was born on October 10, 1917 at Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Thelonious Monk was a famous jazz musician and composer that fell in love with music at a very young age. Before Thelonious Monk was known as a genius, he was judged by many observers for a decade, yet while receiving all the judgment he never changed his music once. Monk never gave up on himself and he loved his music so much, that's why he saw no need to modify his style. Thelonious Monk was around five when he first started playing piano. He grew up in New York and the first job he got was touring with an evangelist. Monk had many inspirations, but when he was playing in house of band of Minton’s Playhouse (1940-1943) he was exploring for his…

“The line is, you’re not black enough,” exclaims the literary agent, Yul, to the main character and protagonist, Thelonious “Monk” Ellison (Everett 43). Monk is reeling as he learns the latest of his novels is amongst a stack of recent rejections. This proclamation marks the writer's seventeenth rejection by publishing companies. Monk is a novelist and professor of English literature, much like his creator, the author, poet, and novelist Percival Everett. Monk prides his literary writings of…

The concert I decided to attend was on Thursday, March 31st, at 8pm in Kemp Recital Hall. The concert consisted of ISU Jazz Combos. Speficaly, there were two different combos, the Marko Combo and the Nolan Combo. Within the Marko Combo, the songs of Stablemates by Benny Golson, Desfinado by Antonio Carlos Jobim, Everybody wants to be a Cat by Robert and Richard Sherman, Ballade de Papillon by Jeff Arbisi, and One for Trane by Mickey Bass were played. The Marko Combo consisted of Kevin Buck and…

Sonny Sharrock Sonny recorded with Miles on the sound track of the film named A Tribute to Jack Johnson and on the album Yesternow. Interestingly enough, his participation in the sound track of A Tribute to Jack Johnson was not credited. The soundtrack also includes John McLaughlin as guitar player. His tenure with Miles was from 1970 to 1972 approximately. One of his greatest contribution to Miles's group can be seen in this quote from "The Sharrock way of knowledge" by Robert Palmer (1991),…

chords and a great sense of rhythmic patterns are only a few characteristics that describe Thelonious Monk’s music. Monk was one the few American jazz composers that gave a spiritual feeling in his music. During his lifetime he played melodies and used chord progressions that no one has ever played before. He epitomizes what a jazz musician is supposed to be, whether if it’s through his compositions, his piano playing or someone else playing his music, you know right away it is Thelonious’. Monk…

English saxophonist Paul Dunmall has built strong reputation in the European free jazz scene throughout the years. From soliloquies to large ensembles, Dunmall never ceases to surprise through his dashing improvised statements and writing skills. Among his successful past collaborations, saxophonist Elton Dean and drummer Tony Bianco come first in the list, while the improvising quartet Mujician with pianist Keith Tippett, bassist Paul Rogers, and percussionist Tony Levin will be always…

In 1964, Thelonious Monk, one of the pioneers of the be-bop and perhaps jazz’s greatest composer, was asked in an interview to define jazz. Usually monk dislike questions but this time he couldn’t miss a beat: “New York, man. You can feel it. It’s around in the air….” Be-bop was something labeled as “New yok Jazz,” and it is, in fact, the only major school of jazz to which the city can lay proprietary claim. The purpose of bop’s irregular phrasings side sliding harmonies and whirlwind space,…

alike have blemishes that are hard to look at. I only hope that the miller can refrain from making bold quiet possibly harsh statements about the Summoners profession. Although this may be a problem I have placed them together for the rest of their similarities. I have placed the monk on the same side as the summoner and the miller. He will be seated in the center of the table along with the yeoman but further to the left side. The reasoning for my selection is due to their greatly similar…

In the Northanger Abbey, John’s characteristic is not very kind by the act of him continuously lying to Catherine and General Tilney in order to get what he wants. From the conversation that Catherine and John had during their first horse carriage ride, John said, “ ‘Novels are all so full of nonsense and stuff; there has not been a tolerably decent one come out since Tom Jones, except The Monk; I read that t’other day; but as for all the others, they are the stupidest things in creation.’…

One of them being the cathedrals. Monastic cathedrals were run by monks (Lehmberg 261) while secular cathedrals are run by deans and canons (Lehmberg 262). The monastic cathedrals had a chief officer of the monastery instead of deans (Lehmberg 41). Monastic also housed more people than secular (Lehmberg 39). There were differences in how they did their services. The monastic cathedrals held three masses each day (Lehmberg 49). The three masses that were held included the morning mass, the…