Among the music was the self-titled, Thelonious these were the opening salvos of a five-year relationship with the label that produced some stunning records.īecause Monk played jazz piano differently than any other pianist, certainly before or probably since jazz fans were unsure what they were listening to. It was in 1947 that Monk made his first recordings with a sextet, which he did for the Blue Note label. Monk had moved to the Spotlight Cub on 52nd Street and it was while he was here that he wrote ‘ ‘Round Midnight’ with Cootie Williams that the trumpeter recorded. Some of the saxophonist’s fans complained about their hero’s eccentric pianist what was also clear is that the veteran jazzman sensed the pianist’s greatness. What is certain is that Monk entered the recording studio with the Coleman Hawkins Quartet in 1944 cutting a few titles. What everyone is sure about is the fact that this famous Harlem club played host to musicians that included Don Byas, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Mary Lou Williams, Max Roach and Roy Eldridge, they along with others were at the forefront of the emerging Be-Bop style of jazz.
Monk may well have recorded with the house band, but no one is quite certain. There was a nod to Bud in 1947 when Monk began recording under his own name and he cut, ‘In Walked Bud’.
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His first professional work was playing Minton’s Playhouse in Harlem, having been encouraged by pianist Bud Powell, who although he was Monk’s junior had begun his professional career much earlier. It’s making it sound right that’s not easy” – Thelonious Monk “ Anybody can play a composition and use far-out chords and make it sound wrong.
Without theses gatherings that originated in Harlem and spread through the Black communities, especially in the South, the development of both Jazz and the Blues could have been very different. These affairs were very common in the Twenties and Thirties when people got together to ‘pass the hat’ to help pay the rent and to give a share to the musician(s). Like many other pianists of his generation and background, he played the organ in church, but at the other end of the musical and spiritual spectrum he became a pianist for a travelling faith healer later he played the piano at house rent parties. Monk’s father was musical, it is likely that this is where Monk got his early interest in the subject, but he was also an athlete in school he began by studying piano when he was ten years old.
With very detailed discography.Thelonious Monk was born October 10, 1917, in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, but moved at age four, with his family, to New York City. The only Thelonious Monk biography in English. For his ill-starred protege, he wrote 'In Walked Bud', '52nd Street Theme', and 'Broadway Theme', otherwise simply known as 'The Theme.' The numbers were intended to be Bud's property alone, and Monk never recorded them."įrom " Thelonious Monk: His Life and Music" Monk was aware that Powell's intervention had saved him from a similar fate. His artistic career had barely started, but henceforth he would be bedeviled by psychological problems. There he was treated with various psychoactive drugs and shock therapy. He eventually checked into Bellevue Hospital, then spent three months in Creedmore Hospital. He was dragged along with Monk, and thrown into jail after his injury was superficially treated at the hospital.Īfter his release Powell complained of alarming headaches. The young fan was Monk's best friend, Bud Powell. You're mistreating the greatest pianist in the world!' At this point a nightstick came down on his head like a lightening bolt. They tried to push him aside, but he wouldn't budge. A fan barred the door and challenged the officers. He refused to show his identification, and was forcibly arrested. "As the musicians were packing up their instruments after the show, the police stormed the club and went after Monk. "Honeysuckle Rose" - Arrangement by Bud Powell It's now accepted that he was born in 1917, not 1920 as reported in early articles about him. Monk showed little interest in documenting the date he was born. * Other sources report that Bud was seven years younger.
Liner notes from "A Portrait of Thelonious" by Bud Powell "The relationship between these two fountainheads of modern jazz has been close on both a personal and musical level ever since the legendary days in the early Forties at Minton's Playhouse in Harlem, when the still-teenaged Powell (Monk's junior by four years*) would stop by to hear, and sit in with, the house band of which Monk was a regular member." Thelonious Monk and Bud Powell in 1964 - Close, lifelong friends Thelonious Monk and Bud Powell Thelonious Monk and Bud Powell
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