Word: monke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meeting of Thelonious Monk, a musical revolutionary, and the Dixieland clarinetist Pee Wee Russell was a flop. There is little enough in common between them, and Monk was uncompromising. It was Russell who had to do the adjusting, and in the process his watery tones lost whatever vitality they might have otherwise had. The concert closed with the 21-piece Stan Kenton orchestra...
...inventive and original musicians in jazz. His cleanly phrased solos are tightly conceived, angular little tone poems. Though he takes great liberties with rhythm, his superb sense of timing prevents him from losing the feeling of swing. Rollins' meeting with Coleman Hawkins created the kind of excitement which Thelonious Monk's meeting with Pee Wee Russell completely failed to engender. The exchange of ideas between Rollins, with his jabbing, knife-like tones, and the mellower Hawkins, was like a friendly debate between two great philosophers. Unlike Monk and Russell, the two tenor saxophonists had enough in common to make...
...weeks earlier, to dramatize the Buddhist majority's fight for greater religious freedom under South Viet Nam's Roman Catholic President Ngo Dinh Diem, a 73-year-old Buddhist monk named Thich Quang Due had spectacularly set himself afire in a Saigon street. Later the martyr's scorched remains were assigned to final cremation in a rice field outside the capital. But, as the priests told it, when the old man's ashes were removed from the oven, his heart emerged miraculously undestroyed-obviously the supernatural work of Buddha. Immediately, his fellow monks proclaimed Quang...
Christian hermits began to settle on Athos about the middle of the 9th century. In 959 St. Athanasios, a learned monk, fled to the peace of the Holy Mount rather than accept an appointment as confessor to the Byzantine Emperor. There, he said, the Virgin appeared before him and promised her perpetual protection for the monastery he was building. Eventually, about 80 monks joined him to complete Great Lavra. Today the monastic population is about 2,000, divided into cenobites, who live, work and pray together, and idiorrhythmic monks, who have tiny cottages and apartments and gather only...
...main events of the festival are four evening concerts to be held tonight through Sunday night. Except for Sunday's concert, scheduled for 6 p.m., all the concerts will begin at 8 p.m. The concerts will feature over thirty different jazz groups, including the Duke Ellington Orchestra, Thelonious Monk, Nina Simone, Dizzy Gillespie, Gerry Mulligan, Sunny Rollins, Dave Brubeck, John Coltrane and Maynard Ferguson...