Word: monke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Monk's Dream (Thelonious Monk Quartet; Columbia) is also a jazz listener's dream. In his first recording in years, Monk sounds better than ever. His new compositions still display the wonders of his imagination, but much of his old cliff-hanging love of anti-melody has disappeared. His quartet is competent, but hardly in his league...
...Soviet audiences were especially fond of Dixieland and swing numbers, but many wanted to hear more modern jazz. "They asked why I hadn't brought along Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, or some 'progressive' jazz man," Goodman said...
...Lewis and Clark of modern jazz, returned from their first explorations on Manhattan's 52nd Street, other musicians have been following the masters' trails. Their search is more for small refinements than grand departures, and cults of aficionados armed with phonograph records travel in their wake. Thelonious Monk's cult, whispering of Webern, insists that the silences in his music are even more profound than the sounds. Miles Davis' cult, transfixed by his trumpet, says nothing, preferring to express its worship in utter silence. But the cultists that follow John Lewis and his Modern Jazz Quartet...
...Monk & Rasputin. Los Angeles' premiere show last week was a musical revue called Who Tied the Can to Modern Man? It was Julius Monky business, and not quite ready to come out from under the stairs. Nonetheless, some moments were passably funny, like the skit about the fellow who buys an apartment so fully automated that it looks after his emotional needs and sings He's a Jolly Good Fellow to cheer him up, but eventually turns against him. A cannon rolls out of the wall and shoots him dead...
...Virginian and ABC's Wagon Train. Philadelphia showed young actors in Thornton Wilder's Pullman Car Hiawatha. Two Chicago housewives-whose principal credits are six children-contributed a short play to Chicago's WBBM-TV about how difficult it was to kill the monk Rasputin. Actor Val Bettin was a triumph of holy lechery with a soft ten-inch beard around smacking wet lips...