Thelonious Monk

Parenting Level Extreme Tobias Wolff, author of the short story “Powder” delineate how on a ski trip in Mount Baker, a father and a son start to bond. The story commence with the father's ex-wife not trusting him with their kid, however she allows them to go on to a ski trip with the condition that he would bring him back home on time for Christmas Eve. The son has an uptight personality which makes him uncomfortable with his father in the beginning. The father chooses an inopportune moment to…

Parker, alto saxophonist Stephen May had a bluesy approach that took influence from Cannonball Adderly, and strangest of all, alto saxophonist carried a very angular avant-garde approach seemingly influenced by latter-day John Coltrane and pianist Thelonious Monk. These differing stylings helped created a cohesive narrative of instrumental voices that kept each song extremely interesting throughout, which proved especially effective when handling some of the longer pieces of the set (primarily…

However, he did not play clarinet for long as he became more interested in jazz music resulting in a change of instrument to an alto saxophone. By this time, John was seventeen years old and was already a very skilled musician that had great potential to lead a successful career. In June of 1943, he moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Coltrane was drafted into the Navy when he was nineteen years old and was released returning to civilian life approximately one year later. After the Navy, he…

Art can inspire one to look beyond the bleakness of his or her environment and aspire for more. Richard Wright, born in 1908, spent his formative years in Mississippi, Arkansas, and Tennessee; unfortunately, all three states were notorious for their observance of the racially discriminatory Jim Crow laws. Biracial author Thomas Chatterton Williams was raised in the suburbs of Westfield, New Jersey, where he discovered Hip-Hop culture and nearly allowed its negative influences to deter him from…

was a doctor though and believed his son needed higher education. So while in New York he attended Juliard playing classical music during the day and jazz at night. Slowly he got noticed by such legends as Charlie Parker, Dizzie Gillespie and Thelonious Monk. eventually though he became fed up with college. He could take no more of Juliard having to deal with racist teachers and the exhaustive workload decided if he was going to play jazz he needed to do it full time. He called his dad and told…

Jazz music has evolved greatly over many years establishing a large variety of different styles within it. I will investigate the deepest roots of jazz and also take a look at some of the theory behind. In the 17th to the 19th century the true and honest roots of jazz music were just beginning. Black slaves were placed in the deep south to work in cotton fields where they would sing African spirituals, chants, work songs and field hollers whilst slaving away all day long in the heat of the sun.…

When Lester Young returned to the civilian world, something new was taking the Jazz world by storm. Bebop. Culminated through New York nighttime jam sessions with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillepsie along with Thelonious Monk and Max Roach, this new type of jazz required the player to be extremely well versed in music theory and had an altered style in improvisation. As we have touched on before, Prez was an extremely talented musician, but the one thing he lacked…