Repost@thejazzestate: Thelonious Monk

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📰 "Thelonious is pianistically beautiful. He approaches the piano somehow from an angle, and it is the right angle. He does the thing completely and thoroughly. He hasn't been influenced through the traditional techniques because he hasn't worked through the keyboard composers and, therefore, has his own complete approach of musical thinking. He is such a thinking musician, and I think this is something a lot of people forget about Monk. They somehow feel he's eccentric, but Monk knows exactly what he's doing. Structurally, and musically, he's very aware of every note he plays." – Bill Evans, reviewing "Darkness in the Delta" from Big Band and Quartet Concert for DownBeat's "Blindfold Test" in 1964.
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📽 The Thelonious Monk Quartet including Thelonious Monk (piano), Charlie Rouse (sax), Lawrence Gales (bass), and Ben Riley (drums) performing the tune "Round Midnight" on television. Poland, 1966.
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