LINKS
- Celebrating the Thelonious Monk Centennial
- Thelonious Monk Quartet – Live At Monterey Jazz Festival, 1963 Vol. 1 – 2
Appendix B: Records and Tapes in Thelonious Monk’s Personal Collection at the Time of His Death; and Other Selected Music Mentioned in the Book
Thelonious Monk, The Life and Times of an American Original; by Robert D.G. Kelley
- Nat King Cole , Just One of Those Things ( Capitol W 903 ) . Full orchestra conducted by Billy May .
- Billy Eckstine , Billy’s Best ( Mercury MG 20333 ) . The album was terribly battered and evidently played often . It includes several standards Eckstine was known for , including
- Dizzy Gillespie , The Greatest of Dizzy Gillespie ( RCA Victor LPM 2398 ) . Released in 1961 , it includes Monk’s “ 52nd Street Theme .” Thelonious refers to this LP in his remarks at the New School for Social Research , June 22 , 1963 ( see Chapter 24 ).
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Other
the photographer W . Eugene Smith ( at whose loft Monk’s big band often rehearsed ) ,
- “Uncle Thelonious sat at the piano turning Christmas carols into Monk originals.”
“Teeny noticed a book of compositions by Chopin perched on her uncle’s rented Steinway baby grand piano.”
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Beethoven
Bach
Igor Stravinsky
Eskimo music . . .
African music
Chinese music .
the music of porpoises