“All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.”
Interview in Down Beat magazine (28 October 1971)
Thelonious Sphere Monk fue un pianista y compositor estadounidense de jazz.
Su estilo interpretativo y compositivo, formado plenamente en 1947, apenas varió en los 25 años siguientes. Pianista fundador del bebop, tocó también bajo el influjo del hard bop y del jazz modal. Es conocido por su estilo único de improvisación, así como por haber compuesto varios estándares de jazz como "'Round Midnight", "Straight No Chaser", "52nd Street Theme" y "Blue Monk".
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“All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.”
Interview in Down Beat magazine (28 October 1971)
Thelonious Monk Documentary DVD.
When questioned as to the future of jazz, as quoted in Jet magazine (31 March 1960), p. 30
“Which is the way to the toilet?”
Circa 1966, reviewing "Easy Listening Blues" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWKavK4naYM from Oscar Peterson's With Respect to Nat, for DownBeat's "Blindfold Test"; reproduced in The Encyclopedia of Jazz in the Sixties (1966) by Leonard Feather, p. 30
“The piano ain't got no wrong notes.”
Attributed by WKCR jazz host Phil Schaap, after a guest commented on how Monk played a lot of "wrong" notes. (March 1976)
Fuente: Evan Spring, Phil Schaap Interview https://www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/content/phil-schaap-interview, WKCR, 5 October, 1992