Ocupation: Pianist
Life: b. December 7, 1960
Birthday: December 7
His name, even, is part of the marketing scheme, I mean, Thelonious Sphere Monk - how can you think of a better name to fit his style of playing?
Topics: Mean, Thinking, Names
What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.
Topics: Music, Bebop, Done, Illegitimate Child
Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name.
Topics: Music, Names, Perfect
The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point.
Topics: Music, Elements, Jazz
Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing.
Topics: Piano, Bud, Influence, Piano Playing
I like people not being able to be pigeon-holed.
Topics: People, Pigeons, Able
People come from a certain generation and a certain whole way of looking at things, and you really do become a prisoner of your own world.
Topics: People, World, Way
I can imagine an utter hatred for the jazz avant-garde.
Topics: Hatred, Avant Garde, Jazz