Thelonius!
Many challenge themselves to play the late
Monk's music as he would envision it, but most
jazz musicians admit that this is near impossible.
Then there was the man - the man most have
called eccentric. But eccentric only begins to
describe the myth that was Thelonius Monk.
Once asked where he would live besides Los
Angeles and New York, he simply and
sincerely replied, "The moon."
There are stories of his arrogance, his solitude,
his mono-syllabic conversations, his prolonged
pensiveness, his eloquent speeches. The fact
remains that very few people ever were able to
get a firm grasp on the character that was
Thelonius Monk.
