A Clint Eastwood-executive produced documentary, “Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser,” was released in 1988.įor Bey, the film is believed to be his first role appearing as a character other than himself since 2009’s “Next Day Air.” Previously, he has starred in “Bamboozled,” “Monster’s Ball,” “The Italian Job,” “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” and “Be Kind Rewind.” He also portrayed Chuck Berry in the 2008 movie “Cadillac Records” and scored Golden Globe and Emmy nominations for his work in the 2004 film “Something the Lord Made.
Monk recorded prolifically for labels such as Blue Note, Prestige, Riverside and Columbia, although his output diminished beginning in the early 1970s and he staged his final tour in 1971. With a unique look featuring sunglasses and hats, he was among the most well-known jazz artists of the next three decades, and was even featured on the cover of Time magazine on Feb. By the mid-1940s, he was gigging regularly in area jazz clubs such as Minton’s Playhouse, where he swinging style presaged the bebop sound later popularized by Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. His family moved to New York in 1922, and he began taking piano lessons shortly thereafter. Features live performances by Monk and his band, and interviews with friends and family about the offbeat genius. A documentary film about the life of pianist and jazz great Thelonious Sphere Monk. With Jimmy Cleveland, Harry Colomby, John Coltrane, Ray Copeland. Renowned for his improvisational virtuosity as much as his all-time standards such as “Round Midnight,” “Straight, No Chaser,” “Blue Monk,” “In Walked Bud,” “Well, You Needn’t” and “Ruby, My Dear,” Monk was born in Rocky Mount, N.C., in 1917. Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser: Directed by Charlotte Zwerin. Kelley is the first biography to put the idiosyncratic music and eccentric behavior of this jazz legend into factual. Yasiin’s artistic measure, his approach and so many other intangibles are perfect to bring Thelonious to life.” Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of An American Original by Robin D. Can Thelonius Monk read music At the age of five or six, he taught himself to read music by picking out melodies on his family’s piano and looking over his sister’s shoulder as she took lessons. Monk's unique piano style and his talent as a composer made him a leader in the development of modern jazz. Monk is the second-most-recorded jazz composer after Duke Ellington. Says Moreland, who like Monk attended Stuyvesant High School in New York, “having spent most of my life as a musician, record producer and composer, I feel really connected to him. Thelonious Monk was an important member of the jazz revolution that took place in the early 1940s.
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