Rambling observations on books, history, movies, transit, obsolete technology, baseball, and anything else that crosses my mind.
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Thelonious Monk 100 -- October 10, 2017
www.listal.com
Thelonious Sphere Monk, Jr was born 100 years ago today, on 10-October-1917. He came out of the stride piano tradition and was one of the wellsprings of bebop. Up until early high school, I didn't get his music. I worked at it after I found an album of his records with Coleman Hawkins. I kept going with other albums. Then I got it.
No comments:
Post a Comment
Comment moderation is turned on. Your message will appear after it has been reviewed.