Thelonious Monk
ISTANBUL, TURKEY - APRIL 30: Students from Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz attend the All-Star Concert as part of the International Jazz Day at Hagia Irene Museum on April 30, 2013 in Istanbul, Turkey.
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I don’t have a problem with anyone who wants to refer to what they do as jazz. I do have a problem with the historical connotations of the word, which has been well documented. … Many great artists, including Thelonious Monk, were not fans of the word. [Sidney] Bechet, Miles, we can go on down the line.
And I had this friend who made his own ramps, had a halfpipe in his backyard -- but he also was a deejay, making beats. So that was kind of my environment -- the culture of hip-hop, the culture of skating. And then also around that time -- I was 11 or 12 -- I started getting into jazz, Thelonious Monk.
When I finally heard people like Erroll Garner and Thelonious Monk, I was drawn to the music’s freedom without knowing that what they played was called jazzMore quotes »
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Romain Collin: "Storm" / "The Calling" Live at Rockwood, NYC (video) (Mixed Media)
A graduate of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, New York-based Romain Collin has had the great fortune of working with the likes of jazz legends Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock. While Shorter and Hancock are some of the giants of fusion and crossov from PopMatters Read more »
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Barry Harris Trio
Legendary Detroit pianist Dr. Barry Harris has, for the the past several decades, been an exponent of the classic Jazz style that was developed by Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk and Coleman Hawkins. Harris has performed and from LongIsland.com Read more »
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Brother Thelonious: A Second Favorite Beer
We’ve talked before about my love for Guinness. I only drink perhaps six glasses a year, but I love the black-and-tan that, when held up to the light, reveals itself to be a gorgeous ruby red. And there is nothing better, after a hot day of sightse from Patheos Blogs Read more »
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Review: Jason Moran's jazz/skateboarding duet
group connected the dots between "93 to Infinity" (by Hieroglyphics, the Oakland hip-hop collective), "Evidence" (by Thelonious Monk) and "The Sheikh of Araby" (by Fats Waller), dressing up the latter as a rhumba. Joining the band for Saturday's half-pip from Contra Costa Times Read more »
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Artists From Across The Globe Grace The Stage In Istanbul For International Jazz Day 2013
ISTANBUL, May 1, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In an unprecedented series of events worldwide, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz joined together to celebrate jazz as from Street Insider Read more »
