Thelonious Monk
USA
Born: 10 October 1917
Died: 17 February 1982
Styles: Bop, Post-Bop, Hard Bop, Modal Music, Modern Big Band, Big Band, Big Band/Swing, Mainstream Jazz, New Orleans/Classic Jazz, Progressive Jazz
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The most important jazz musicians are the ones who are successful in creating their own original world of music with its own rules, logic, and surprises. Thelonious Monk, who was criticized by observers who failed to listen to his music on its own terms, suffered through a decade of neglect before he was suddenly acclaimed as a genius; his music had not changed one bit in the interim. In fact, one of the more remarkable aspects of Monk's music was that it was fully formed by 1947 and he saw no need to alter his playing or compositional style in...
See also
- Al Foster (5)
- Art Taylor (3)
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Influenced by
- Duke Ellington (169)
- Coleman Hawkins (30)
- Teddy Wilson (4)
Followers
- Miles Davis (281)
- John Coltrane (110)
- Harry Connick, Jr. (70)
- Sonny Rollins (51)
- Carla Bley (51)
- Ornette Coleman (47)
- Jean-Luc Ponty (38)
- Mal Waldron (17)
- Michel Legrand (12)
- Max Roach (11)
- Andrew Hill (11)
- Lounge Lizards (10)
- Randy Weston (3)
- Roswell Rudd (3)
- Henri Renaud (2)
- Charlie Rouse (1)
- Alan Skidmore (0)
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Performed Songs By
- Dizzy Gillespie (84)
- Coleman Hawkins (30)
- Milt Jackson (29)
- Ike Quebec (6)
- George Gershwin (4)
- Irving Berlin (0)
- Ray Noble (0)
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