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Word: thelonius (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like to wear berets, goatees and green-tinted horn-rimmed glasses, talk about their "interesting new sounds." The high priest is Dizzy, 30, a South Carolina boy whose rapid-fire, scattershot talk has about the same pace-and content-as his music. Whether he, an obscure Manhattan pianist named Thelonius Monk or Saxophonist Charlie ("Yardbird") Parker invented bebop is a matter of learned dispute among beboppers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: How Deaf Can You Get? | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

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