Word: thelonius
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jazz on a Summer's Day. During 85 woolly minutes at the Newport Jazz Festival, first-time Director Bert Stern gives his audience some solid sound, and a way-in view of the way out: Thelonius Monk, Gerry Mulligan and like that...
Jazz and dope often seem as closely linked as their jargon; e.g., the jazz terms "hip" and "hipster" are derived from opium smoking, during which the addict lies on one hip. Such famed hipsters as Gene Krupa, Thelonius Monk and the late Billie Holliday had their public problems with dope, and the jazz trade has long refused to book some big-name combos into cities where drugs are known to be hard to get. To find out just how far jazz and dope play hand in hand, Manhattan Psychologist Charles Winick interviewed 357 jazz musicians on the habits of some...