She became Monk's muse and patron, giving him money, driving him to gigs and letting him rehearse and record at her home.Įventually, she had a song written about her titled "Pannonica," after her first name. She was a member of the powerful Rothschild family - and a jazz enthusiast. That white woman was the Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter. And once in Delaware when he was traveling with a white woman, when he was going to a gig, and the police pulled up and stopped him." And Thelonious Monks name, appearance (he liked funny hats).
Once for possession of heroin, which wasn't even his. Thelonious Monk grew up in New York, started playing piano when he was around five. "Thelonious was arrested multiple times," Kelley says.
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He was broke most of his life, and for years he couldn't play in New York City because the police revoked his cabaret card - a musician's license - after he was arrested. If I did I, would be bitter."Īnd Monk had a lot to be bitter about. There's so many things to do that I even didn't feel it. With his steady quartet of veteran collaborators, he had landed himself a new contract with Columbia and recorded 2 milestone albums for them (Monk’s Dream and Criss-Cross). "You know, like, there's always something to occupy your mind, something to occupy your time. Thelonious Monk died of a stroke in 1982, leaving us with an unparalleled legacy. "It was so much happening," he said in 1964 to radio host David Kidd. But Monk remained relatively obscure - though he never let that get to him. Monk took the stage in his unique style with a grey wool Papakha as his hat choice. The show consisted of two parts: both were recorded by the national Belgian broadcast company BRT/RTB who had the best recording-equipment on the market at the time. These small groups all played Monk's compositions and some of them, like Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, even became famous. Palais Des Beaux-Arts 1963 is unearthed Belgian concert-recordings from Thelonious Monk. And he'd be like, nice to see you Bertha! And that's what it'd be like to hang out with Monk.Monk was there at the birth of bebop in the early 1940s, when the emphasis in jazz shifted from big bands to virtuosic small groups. And she'd eventually get sick of it and leave. Anyway Bertha told me she'd go over to see Monk and he'd always be lying in bed, dressed with his hat and shoes on, and he'd be silent the whole time, and they'd just sit there quietly. Wall Art - Painting - Hats and Beards by Martel Chapman. I know this pianist, Bertha Hope, who was a friend of Monk's - her husband Elmo Hope was a contemporary of his (Elmo, Monk, and Bud Powell were called the "Three Musketeers," but Elmo never got famous in the same way - he was a shy kid and he died young). Shop for thelonious monk wall art from the worlds greatest living artists. The hats are critical, man!!!! I wish I had access to them - then again, if I did, I'd spend all day wearing them and checking myself out instead of doing any real work. I was super amused! I actually wrote a Buzzfeed thing one time and posted it on my boss's Facebook, and it had a joke about Thelonious's hats - Toot commented something like "right on!" and it made my day.
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