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Biography

Name: Thelonious Monk
Birth Date: October 10, 1917
Death Date: February 17, 1982
Place of Birth: Rocky Mount, North Carolina, United States
Place of Death: Englewood, New Jersey, United States
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: African American
Gender: Male
Occupations: instrumental musician, composer, music director/conductor

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Biography of Thelonious Monk
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Along with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk (1917-1982) was a vital member of the jazz revolution which took place in the early 1940s. Monk's unique piano style and his talent as a composer made him a leader in the development of...


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Thelonious Monk (October 10 1917 – February 17, 1982) was a jazz pianist and composer . Attributed Monk enters the studio and starts playing ,the rest of the musicians join him. After few minutes of play the technician from his room shouts and stops...


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Thelonious Sphere Monk (October 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982) was a jazz pianist and composer. Monk had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire (including his classic works "'Round Midnight"...


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The Village Voice
The Thelonious Monk Guide
06/07/2006: 1,306 words, approx. 4 pages
(((VOICE JAZZ))) THE THELONIOUS MONK GUIDE HE RECORDED THE SAME SONGS OVER AND OVER AND NEVER WORE THEM OUT Well, you needn't get the four-disc Complete Blue Note Recordings or the 15-disc Complete Riverside Recordings. Yet with both, you'd have five versions...
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Key jazz program moves to New Orleans
4/2/2007: 500 words, approx. 2 pages
One of the jazz world's foremost learning institutions will move here from Los Angeles, and those involved hope it will ensure the genre has a future in the city where it was born.The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz is relocating its performance program from Los...
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Jazz pianist-composer Andrew Hill dies
4/21/2007: 349 words, approx. 1 pages
Jazzman Andrew Hill, a groundbreaking pianist and composer known for his complex post-bop style, died early Friday, his record label announced. He was 75.Hill, who had been diagnosed with lung cancer three years ago, died at his Jersey City, N.J., home, according to Cem Kurosman...
 


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