Johnson, Fats Waller and Willie ‘The Lion’ Smith), the interests that Monk, Powell and Hope shared led them to become a kind of informal club. Much like an earlier generation of New York pianists (including James P.
The title of my tune ‘Monk, Bud and Elmo’ refers to a group of now-legendary jazz pianists, Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell and Elmo Hope, who hung out together in the early 1940s, before any of them had reached their greatest prominence. With very detailed discography.Above: Jack Teagarden, Dixie Bailey, Mary Lou Williams, Tadd Dameron, Hank Jones, Dizzy Gillespie and Milt Orent around the piano at Mary Lou Williams’ apartment / Below: the same group in a different order around the phonograph (i.e. The only Thelonious Monk biography in English. For his ill-starred protege, he wrote 'In Walked Bud', '52nd Street Theme', and 'Broadway Theme', otherwise simply known as 'The Theme.' The numbers were intended to be Bud's property alone, and Monk never recorded them."įrom " Thelonious Monk: His Life and Music" Monk was aware that Powell's intervention had saved him from a similar fate. His artistic career had barely started, but henceforth he would be bedeviled by psychological problems.
There he was treated with various psychoactive drugs and shock therapy. He eventually checked into Bellevue Hospital, then spent three months in Creedmore Hospital. He was dragged along with Monk, and thrown into jail after his injury was superficially treated at the hospital.Īfter his release Powell complained of alarming headaches. The young fan was Monk's best friend, Bud Powell. You're mistreating the greatest pianist in the world!' At this point a nightstick came down on his head like a lightening bolt. They tried to push him aside, but he wouldn't budge. A fan barred the door and challenged the officers. He refused to show his identification, and was forcibly arrested. "As the musicians were packing up their instruments after the show, the police stormed the club and went after Monk. "Honeysuckle Rose" - Arrangement by Bud Powell It's now accepted that he was born in 1917, not 1920 as reported in early articles about him. Monk showed little interest in documenting the date he was born. * Other sources report that Bud was seven years younger. Liner notes from "A Portrait of Thelonious" by Bud Powell "The relationship between these two fountainheads of modern jazz has been close on both a personal and musical level ever since the legendary days in the early Forties at Minton's Playhouse in Harlem, when the still-teenaged Powell (Monk's junior by four years*) would stop by to hear, and sit in with, the house band of which Monk was a regular member." Thelonious Monk and Bud Powell in 1964 - Close, lifelong friends
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