Music in Monk Time.

Format:

Video

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Piano Jazz.

Bebop.

United States and Canada.

African Americans.

(1917), Thelonious Monk,.

Local Subjects:

Piano Jazz.

Bebop.

United States and Canada.

African Americans.

(1917), Thelonious Monk,.

Genre:

Documentary

Physical Description:

1 online resource (60 minutes)

Place of Publication:

Paris, Ile-de-France : Qwest TV, 1983.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

Thelonious Monk led a quietly troubled, but an immensely creative life. A genius of jazz piano, who in his early career was critiqued as unlistenable, ultimately has influenced everyone today. This is the theme of the 1986 documentary “Music in Monk Time.” The MC of the film is vocalese vocalist Jon Hendricks who tells the Monk history, including humorously his penchant for wearing a variety of hats. The story is illustrated by invaluable archival concert footage in Norway, as well as multiple retrospective interviews with his long-time bandmates (Charlie Rouse on tenor sax, Larry Gales on bass, Ben Riley on drums), the classic jazz vocalist Carmen McRae and son T.S. Monk who tells us that his father taught him how to play basketball. In addition, in stretches there are modern day bands that feature Dizzy Gillespie and Milt Jackson bringing Monk’s music to a new sphere. But the best parts of the hour-long doc are in Norway when Monk shows how brilliant and unusual he was in his angular playing - the twists, the tempo stops, the infectious rhythms and melodies that he delivered with so-called wrong notes. Dan Ouellette

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed July 15, 2024).