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Thelonious Monk

Minton's Playhouse, New York, N.Y., ca. Sept. 1947]

William P. Gottlieb

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.natlib.gottlieb.06211/enlarge.html?page=1&section=ver01&size=1024&from=

Title 

[Portrait of Thelonious Monk,

Minton's Playhouse, New York, N.Y., ca. Sept. 1947]

[photograph] 

Creator Gottlieb, William P., 1917-

Date issued 1947

Physical Description 1 negative : b&w ; 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 in.

Repositories Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division

Washington D.C. 20540 USA

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.natlib.gottlieb.06211/default.html

Thelonius Monk,

playing at the Five Spot, in 1963.

Photograph: Ben Martin

Getty Images

The Lower East Side in 8 Songs

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to the Velvet Underground to virtual reality:

How a gritty neighborhood in New York

always turned out the most vital music.

The New York Times

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The pianist Thelonious Monk

performing at the Randalls Island Jazz Festival in 1959.

Photograph:

Courtesy of the Kwame Brathwaite Archive

The Photographer Who Captured the Beauty in Blackness

Kwame Brathwaite,

who shot some of the great icons of the 1960s and ’70s,

has spent his career largely underrecognized.

That is, until now.

NYT

June 17, 2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/17/
t-magazine/kwame-brathwaite-photographer.html

Thelonious Monk    1917-1982

https://www.theguardian.com/music/thelonious-monk

https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/thelonious-monk

https://www.npr.org/artists/15130415/thelonious-monk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Thelonious_Monk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Thelonious_Monk_discography

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/17/
t-magazine/kwame-brathwaite-photographer.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/16/
arts/music/thelonious-monk-palo-alto.html

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/19/
880564012/a-previously-unreleased-thelonious-monk-concert-is-coming-next-month

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/21/
nyregion/lower-east-side-songs.html

http://www.npr.org/2017/10/10/
556842176/after-midnight-thelonious-monk-at-100

http://www.npr.org/2015/07/22/
425293193/reissue-of-thelonious-monk-s-riverside-recordings-shows-a-star-on-the-rise

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/09/arts/music/
paul-jeffrey-saxophonist-who-worked-with-thelonious-monk-dies-at-81.html

http://www.npr.org/2015/03/02/
390244979/legendary-jazz-producer-orrin-keepnews-dies-at-91

http://www.npr.org/event/music/
358347415/happy-birthday-blue-note - October 23, 2014

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/apr/22/
hannah-rothschild-nica-jazz-thelonious-monk-interview

http://www.npr.org/2011/02/02/
15130418/thelonious-monk-thelonious-himself

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/jun/19/
thelonious-monk-biography-robin-kelly

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/books/review/Kleinzahler-t.html

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/dec/22/jazz

https://www.theguardian.com/century/1960-1969/
Story/0,,105533,00.html  

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