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Thelonious Monk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thelonious Sphere Monk [ 2 ] (October 10, 1917 [ 3 ] – February 17, 1982) was an American jazz pianist and composer considered one of the giants of American music. [ 4 ] Monk had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including " Epistrophy ", " 'Round Midnight ", " Blue Monk ", " Straight, No Chaser " and " Well, You Needn't ". Monk is the second most recorded jazz composer after Duke Ellington , which is particularly remarkable as Ellington composed over 1,000 songs while Monk wrote about 70. [ 5 ] His compositions and improvisations are full of dissonant harmonies and angular melodic twists, and are consistent with Monk's unorthodox approach to the piano, which combined a highly percussive attack with abrupt, dramatic use of silences and hesitations.
Art Blakey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Arthur "Art" Blakey (October 11, 1919 – October 16, 1990), [ 1 ] known later as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina , was an American Grammy Award -winning jazz drummer and bandleader . He was a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community . Along with Kenny Clarke and Max Roach , he was one of the inventors of the modern bebop style of drumming. He is known as a powerful musician and a vital groover; his brand of bluesy, funky hard bop was and continues to be profoundly influential on mainstream jazz. For more than 30 years his band, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers , included many young musicians who went on to become prominent names in jazz.
