Thelonious Monk Playing Piano At Minton’s Playhouse

This awesome black and white capture features Thelonious Monk at the piano, Minton's Playhouse, Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York., circa... more

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Thelonious Monk Playing Piano At Minton’s Playhouse

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This awesome black and white capture features Thelonious Monk at the piano, Minton's Playhouse, Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York., circa September, 1947.
Thelonious Monk was an American jazz pianist and composer. He had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "'Round Midnight", "Blue Monk", "Straight, No Chaser", "Ruby, My Dear", "In Walked Bud", and "Well, You Needn't". Monk is the second-most-recorded jazz composer after Duke Ellington, which is particularly remarkable as Ellington composed more than a thousand pieces, whereas Monk wrote about 70. At 17, Monk toured with an evangelist, playing the church organ, and in his late teens he began to find work playing jazz.[12] In the early to mid-1940s, he was the house pianist at Minton's Playhouse, a Manhattan nightclub.

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April 19th, 2023