Thelonious Monk
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title:
Thelonious Monk
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Thelonious Sphere 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. Monk's compositions and improvisations feature dissonances and angular melodic twists, often using flat ninths, flat fifths, unexpected ch
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American jazz pianist and composer (1917–82)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelonious_Monk
date created:
2002-09-12T02:51:16Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T02:29:48Z
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