 | THE THELONIOUS MONK WEBSITE |
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| A website featuring Stan Tracey - "a pianist/composer who has listened to Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk and has found his own voice in the process."
 Finding himself accompanied by Stan Tracey during a season at Ronnie Scott's, Sonny Rollins asked the British music press: "Does anybody here know how good he really is?" He has recorded extensively although his CD's may be hard to find - but they are well worth looking for. The website has a great discography - and lots more information.
A list of miscellaneous links
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 | A different kind of website - Louis Joos's "Thelonious Monk" |
| "The Golden Age of Jazz" Jazz photographs from William P. Gottlieb. The book contains more than 200 historic photographs accompanied by the personal recollections of the photographer himself. |  |
"Thelonious would have loved what Gary is doing - really learning the music and then doing his own thing with it." - Mrs. Nellie Monk.
A great new website from Gary Wittner, an acknowledged authority on the music and life of Thelonious Monk, Gary has presented concert/lectures on Monk at many universities and clubs throughout the USA and Europe and has recently released a new CD where he is joined by Howard Johnson (tuba, contra-bass clarinet) and Bruce Ditmas (drums). It includes 3 compositions by Thelonious Monk, 7 originals and 3 folk/blues arrangements for solo guitar, performed in a style Gary refers to as "Big Bill Broonzy meets Thelonious Monk." This combines the right hand guitar style of the rural blues with more angular aspects of Monk's music.Gary's first book "Thelonious Monk for Guitar" , published by the Hal Leonard Corp. was released internationally in 1999. The book includes 11 compositions notated for guitar transcribed from the original recordings with specific performance notes for guitarists. There's a listing of recorded sources for each transcription and includes a selected discography.
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Mel Martin's Jazz & Saxophone Web Site -  |
The Rich Szabo Jazz Orchestra -  |
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