Thelonious Sphere Monk (Composer)
Born: 10th October 1917, Rocky Mount, North Carolina, U.S.A
Died: 17th February 1982, Englewood, New Jersey, U.S.A
Nationality: American
Thelonious Sphere Monk was an American jazz pianist and composer. He had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "'Round Midnight", "Blue Monk", "Straight, No Chaser", "Ruby, My Dear", "In Walked Bud", and "Well, You Needn't". Monk is the second-most-recorded jazz composer after Duke Ellington.
Monk's compositions and improvisations feature dissonances and angular melodic twists and are consistent with his unorthodox approach to the piano, which combined a highly percussive attack with abrupt, dramatic use of switched key releases, silences, and hesitations.
Monk was renowned for a distinct look which included suits, hats, and sunglasses.
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- 'Round Midnight (125)
- 52nd Street Theme (39)
- A Merrier Christmas (1)
- Anthropology (1)
- Ask Me Now (73)
- Ba-lue Bolivar Ba-lues-are (17)
- Bemsha Swing (35)
- Blue Monk (124)
- Blues Five Spot (10)
- Brake's Sake (8)
- Bright Mississippi (17)
- Brilliant Corners (34)
- Bye-Ya (35)
- Coming on the Hudson (14)
- Crepuscule With Nellie (39)
- Criss Cross (31)
- Dear Ruby (1)
- Epistrophy (54)
- Eronel (26)
- Evidence (96)
- Five Spot Blues (2)
- Four In One (39)
- Friday the 13th (19)
- Gallop's Gallop (13)
- Get It Straight (1)
- Green Chimneys (16)
- Hackensack (42)
- Hornin' In (11)
- Humph (8)
- I Mean You (54)
- In Walked Bud (58)
- Introspection (17)
- Jackie-ing (20)
- Let's Call This (19)
- Let's Cool One (31)
- Light Blue (43)
- Little Rootie Tootie (28)
- Locomotive (13)
- Misterioso (69)
- Monk's Dream (42)
- Monk's Mood (72)
- North Of The Sunset (2)
- Nutty (38)
- Off Minor (44)
- Oska T. (6)
- Pannonica (72)
- Played Twice (26)
- Raise Four (9)
- Reflections (60)
- Rhythm-a-ning (74)
- Ruby, My Dear (114)
- San Francisco Holiday (Worry Later) (3)
- Skippy (28)
- Straight, No Chaser (123)
- Suddenly (1)
- Teo (10)
- Thelonious (27)
- Think of One (36)
- Trinkle, Trinkle (46)
- Ugly Beauty (41)
- We See (29)
- Well You Needn't (80)
- Well, You Needn't (34)
- Who Knows (11)
- Work (26)
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