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...jazz world puts all its heroes in "bags"-tight little schools of artistic similarity that confine each jazzman to his own musical neighborhood: Funk, Freedom, Groove, Bop, Soul. Only three great players have managed to avoid classification-Thelonious Monk because he is inimitable and Monkishly alone, Duke Ellington because he is a kind of president emeritus, and Count Basie because he so perfectly swings. Last week, in a wild and woolly engagement at Manhattan's Basin Street East, the Count's pigeonhole at last be came apparent: he's in the New Year...
...Monk's Dream and Criss-Cross (Columbia) present Jazz Pianist Thelonious Monk and his quartet in the finest of fettle, reconsidering works from his collection of private standards. (Crepuscule with Nellie, Rhythm-a-ning, Monk's Dream) in performances that prove the immense vitality of his Monkish imagination...
...century astronomer-monk Dionysius Exiguus tried to find out in what year Jesus was born according to Roman reckoning, misread his sources, and threw the dating of the Christian era out of whack...
...Monasteries. They did not stay members long. She was paid a visit by a Trappist monk called Brother Leo (Christopher Gregory) of St. Joseph's Abbey in Spencer, Mass. Brother Leo, whom she had known before, was apparently doing some fund raising on behalf of two fledgling Trappist monasteries that St. Joseph's was establishing in South America. Sarita took a liking to the personable monk, who received permission from his abbot to stay with her while she completed arrangements for disposing of her estate. She even gave power of attorney to Brother Leo, who took...
...morality oneself. The trouble with the terms of debate that Dean Monro has established is that to follow them is to argue by extremes, whereas for my part I have as little desire to live a life of constant orgies as I have to live the life of a monk. I do, however, have a moral order whose roots are in my knowledge of myself and of the people around...