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Thelonious Monk graduated high school
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Description
Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Sphere Monk
[2]
(
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, October 10, 1917
[3]
– February 17, 1982) 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
, which is particularly remarkable as Ellington composed more than a thousand pieces, whereas Monk wrote about 70.
[4]
References
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelonious Monk
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