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Black Music Research Journal articles from September 1999
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Black Music Research Journal archives from September 1999
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION.
September 22, 1999... Recently, while sitting in my doctor's office in a small town in southeastern Virginia, I heard a familiar melody floating through the air over the Muzak system. For a few moments I could not identify the tune, wrapped in lush chords and...
NEW MONASTERY: MONK AND THE JAZZ AVANT-GARDE.
September 22, 1999... The musician who once terrified us all no longer seems to disturb a soul. He has been tamed, classified, and given his niche in that eclectic Museum of Great Jazzmen which admits such a variety of species, from Fats Domino to Stan Kenton.
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"NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT": THELONIOUS MONK AND POPULAR SONG.
September 22, 1999... Thelonious Monk is primarily celebrated as a composer, the creator of a unique body of music that counts as one of the cornerstones of modern jazz. When we think of him as an improviser, it is primarily in the context of his own compositions....
MONK MEETS SNCC.
September 22, 1999... Thelonious Monk--the enigma, the man who could compose with the radio blaring, wore unusual hats, danced around onstage, had periods of acute disconnectedness, and showed particular gifts in mathematics as a high school student--has long been a...
MISTERIOSO.(Poem)
September 22, 1999...
One-fingering my way through
the white pages I stopped
upon T. S. Monk, dialed,
and when a voice deeper
than mine would ever get said
Yeah I said nothing
for several seconds.
I've blocked out my nervous...
EVIDENCE: MONK AS DOCUMENTARY SUBJECT.
September 22, 1999... For those familiar with Thelonious Monk only through recordings, the experience of first seeing him perform on film can be startling. The outrageous hats, the splayed fingers, the sucked-in cheeks, the spastic dancing--all of it suggests a...
MAINSTREAMING MONK: THE ELLINGTON ALBUM.
September 22, 1999... He is, I think, a major jazz composer, the first since Duke Ellington.
--Martin Williams (1963, 33)
Monk took much of his style from Ellington and he would like to have been an accomplished pianist who could have articulated in the...
A SELECTION OF MONK SOURCES.(Bibliography)
September 22, 1999... Jazz research materials occupy an unsettled position in the bibliographic universe, poorly served by periodical indexes and bibliographies and often ephemeral, out of print, or hidden away in books. Much writing appears first in liner notes or...