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Thelonious Monk
From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist
Thelonious Monk grew up in the San Juan Hill neighbourhood of Manhattan and as a boy played in churches and at rent parties. There he heard the stride piano of James P. Johnson, who lived nearby, and he admired Duke Ellington, whose music he played on an entire album in 1955. In the early 1940s he was pianist in the house band of Minton's Playhouse. Monk played with angular rhythms, dissonant chords and silences. He wrote pieces that became standards, such as 'Round Midnight, Straight, No Chaser and Epistrophy. For a long time he was seen as an eccentric. Only after his 1957 performances with John Coltrane at the Five Spot did he gain wide recognition; in 1964 he was on the cover of Time.
Listening
'Round Midnight · Thelonious Monk, 1947- Epistrophy · Thelonious Monk, 1948
Straight, No Chaser · Thelonious Monk, 1951
Discography
Studio albums
- 1951Genius of Modern Music, Volume 1
- 1952Genius of Modern Music, Volume 2
- 1953Thelonious Monk Trio
- 1954Piano Solo
- 1954Thelonious Monk Plays
- 1956Monk
- 1956The Unique Thelonious Monk
- 1956Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington
- 1957Brilliant Corners
- 1957Mulligan Meets Monk
- 1957Thelonious Himself
- 1958Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers With Thelonious Monk
- 1958In Orbit
- 1959Thelonious Alone in San Francisco
- 1961Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane
- 1963Criss-Cross
- 1964It’s Monk’s Time
- 1964Monk
- 1965Solo Monk
- 1967Straight, No Chaser
- 1968Underground
- 1969Monk’s Blues
- 1972Something in Blue
- 1973The Man I Love
- 1980Blue Sphere
- 1985More Genius of Thelonious Monk
- 1989Straight, No Chaser (soundtrack)
- 2016Round Midnight
- 2017Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 (soundtrack)
Other work
- 1947–1952Genius of Modern Music
- 1962Monk's Dream
In School of Rock
The chapters, maps and magazine stories of School of Rock are currently available in Dutch only.
- Jazz MapNL Map
- Mixtape 5: Jazz FestivalNL Reader
- Mixtape 9: The InstrumentNL Reader
- After Hours: Session 2NL Reader
- After Hours: Session 3NL Reader
- After Hours: Session 4NL Reader
- Magazine: Rent parties en strideNL Magazine