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  1. Jazztodon artist of the week: Thelonious Monk!

    "All the musicians that were thinking liked my music and wanted to learn how to play the different songs that we were playing. And the most talented ones used to be on the scene. Like Charlie Parker and Dizzy. They were about the fastest-thinking musicians. And so they would come and play all the time, and I would teach ‘em the songs, you know, and the chords. They didn’t just hear it. I had to tell ‘em what it was.

    I wasn’t trying to create something that would be hard to play. I just composed music that fit with how I was thinking. I knew musicians would dig it, because it sounded good. I didn’t want to play the way I’d heard music played all my life. I got tired of hearing that. I wanted to hear something else, something better. In fact, I wanted to play differently. I had a different conception of rhythm section, and all that."

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  2. January 1966 - Thelonious Monk Quartet + John Coltrane Quartet - Jazz Workshop - San Francisco

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    #TheloniousMonk plays ’Round Midnight.
    Paris, ORTF Studios, December 15, 1969.

    Recorded for the television show Jazz Portrait: Thelonious Monk, hosted by Henri Renaud
    Piano

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