\nAmb 16 anys comen\u00e7a a guanyar algun diner amb una banda. Al primers dels ’40 era el pianista de Minton’s, a l’\u00e8poca que s’estava forjant el bebop.
\nAnava a ser reclutat per la WWII per\u00f2 va ser rebutjat per raons psiqui\u00e0triques.[quines?]<\/p>\n
1947-1952<\/strong> 1952-1954 Prestige Records<\/strong><\/p>\n Enregistra amb Prestige alguns \u00e0lbums que tindran poc \u00e8xit. El 1954 fa el primer viatge a Paris. Backstage, Mary Lou Williams introduced him to Baroness Pannonica “Nica” de Koenigswarter, a member of the Rothschild family and a patroness of several New York City jazz musicians. She was a close friend for the rest of Monk’s life: she “served as a surrogate wife right alongside Monk’s equally devoted actual wife, Nellie”[20] and “paid Monk’s bills, dragged him to an endless array of doctors, put him and his family up in her own home and, when necessary, helped Nellie institutionalize him. In 1958, Monk and the baroness were stopped by the police in Delaware. When a small amount of marijuana was discovered, she took the rap for her friend and even served a few nights in jail.<\/p>\n 1955-1961 Riverside Records<\/strong> 1962-1970 Columbia Records<\/strong> El 1964 apareix a la portada de Time.<\/p>\n Underground, 1968. But by the Columbia years his compositional output was limited, and only his final Columbia studio record, Underground, featured a substantial number of new tunes, including his only 3 Miles and Monk at Newport (1963) 1971-1982 Anys finals<\/strong><\/p>\n T\u00e9 problemes de salut [mental?]. The documentary film Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser (1988) attributed Monk’s quirky behavior to mental illness. In the film, Monk’s son said that his father sometimes did not recognize him, and he reported that Monk was hospitalized on several occasions owing to an unspecified mental illness that worsened in the late 1960s. No reports or diagnoses were ever publicized, but Monk would often become excited for two or three days, then pace for days after that, after which he would withdraw and stop speaking. Doctors recommended electroconvulsive therapy as a treatment option for Monk’s illness, but his family would not allow it; antipsychotics and lithium were prescribed instead.[30][31] Other theories abound: Leslie Gourse, author of the book Straight, No Chaser: The Life and Genius of Thelonious Monk (1997), reported that at least one of Monk’s psychiatrists failed to find evidence of manic depression (bipolar disorder) or schizophrenia. Another doctor maintains that Monk was misdiagnosed and prescribed drugs during his hospital stay that may have caused brain damage.<\/p>\n Va viure els seus darrers 6 anys a Weekhaven la resid\u00e8ncia de Pannonica, at\u00e8s per ella i per la seva dona Nellie.<\/p>\n video1<\/a>, video2<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Geni i bogeria<\/a>\u00a0.\u00a0La bogeria a les arts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [esborrany] pendent discografia, estil, i playlist asd Thelonious Sphere Monk[3]\u00a0(\/\u03b8\u0259\u02c8lo\u028ani\u0259s\/\u00a0October 10, 1917 \u2013 February 17, 1982) was an American\u00a0jazz pianist\u00a0and\u00a0composer. He had a unique\u00a0improvisational\u00a0style and made numerous contributions to the\u00a0standard\u00a0jazz 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 … <\/p>\n
\nEl presenten a Lorraine Gordon, propit\u00e0ria del Village Vanguard, que reconeixer\u00e0 el seu geni. Els seus discos no e svenen, no obstant Lion told him that there were three people in his life that when he heard them, he just flipped and had to record everything they did. The first was Monk, the second was Herbie Nichols, and the third was Andrew Hill, where he didn’t care how much money he made or lost. He just had to record this music
\nEl 1947 es casa amb Nellie Smith. [Crepuscule with Nellie]
\nEl 1951 estava a un cotxe amb el seu amic Bud Powell i els van trobar droga. Monk no va tetsificar contra Powell i li van retirar la seva “New York City cabaret Card”, cosa que l’impedia tocar a clubs. Va sobreviure com va poder en clubs de Brooklyn propietat de negres.<\/p>\n
\nPoques vendes per\u00f2 prestigi entre els cr\u00edtics. El segell Riverside compra el contracte per 108$.
\nThelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington (1955)
\nUnique Thelonious Monk (1956)
\nBrilliant Corners (1956)
\nRecupera la Cabaret Card i toca amb Coltrane al Five Spot. Despr\u00e9s ho far\u00e0 amb Griffin i Charlie Rouse al saxo, Ahmed Abdul-Malilk i Roy Haynes.
\n“Crepuscule with Nellie”, recorded in 1957, was referred to by biographer Robin D. G. Kelley as Monk’s “only through-composed composition, meaning that there is no improvising. It is Monk’s concerto, if you will, and in some ways it speaks for itself. But he wrote it very, very carefully and very deliberately and really struggled to make it sound the way it sounds. … it was his love song for Nellie”.<\/p>\n
\ngrup amb Charlie Rouse ts, John Ore bs Frankie Dunlop ds.
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\nMonk’s Dream, 1963
\nCriss Cross, 1963<\/p>\n
\n4 time piece, “Ugly Beauty”.
\nen viu<\/p>\n
\nLive at the It Club (1963)
\nLive at the Jazz Workshop (1964)<\/p>\n
\nFa un tour amb els Giants of Jazz, a group which included Gillespie, Kai Winding, Sonny Stitt, Al McKibbon, and Art Blakey.
\nBassist McKibbon, who had known Monk for over twenty years and played on his final tour in 1971, later said: “On that tour, Monk said about two words. I mean literally maybe two words. He didn’t say ‘Good morning,’ ‘Goodnight,’ ‘What time?’ Nothing. Why, I don’t know. He sent word back after the tour was over that the reason he couldn’t communicate or play was that Art Blakey and I were so ugly.
\nPer\u00f2 en canvi, abans, Coltrane havia d’ell: “Monk is exactly the opposite of Miles [Davis]: he talks about music all the time, and he wants so much for you to understand that if, by chance, you ask him something, he’ll spend hours if necessary to explain it to you.<\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/meumon.synology.me\/museu\/fonsimatges\/fotos\/monkdancing.jpg\")
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