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Listen to Thelonious Monk, watch music videos, read bio, see tour dates & more!

Thelonious Monk

Jazz

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Brilliant CornersThelonious Monk
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Straight, No ChaserThelonious Monk
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Bemsha Swing (feat. Sonny Rollins & Clark Terry)Thelonious Monk
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Ruby, My DearThelonious Monk
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Monk's Dream (Take 8)Thelonious Monk
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Bags' Groove (feat. Thelonious Monk, Milt Jackson, Kenny Clarke & Percy Heath) [RVG Remaster]Miles Davis
Listen to 'Round Midnight by Thelonious Monk, see lyrics, music video & more!
'Round MidnightThelonious Monk
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Trinkle, TinkleThelonious Monk & John Coltrane

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Listen to Mulligan Meets Monk (Remastered 2025 / Mono Mix) by Gerry Mulligan & Thelonious Monk
ALBUMMulligan Meets Monk (Remastered 2025 / Mono Mix)Gerry Mulligan & Thelonious Monk

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Thelonious Monk's Popular Music Videos

Watch 'Round Midnight (Lyric Video) [feat. Jazmine Sullivan] music video by Adam Blackstone
'Round Midnight (Lyric Video) [feat. Jazmine Sullivan]
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Artist Playlists

Thelonious Monk Essentials
Thelonious Monk Essentials
A swinging composer of classics who took melodic risks.
Thelonious Monk Essentials
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Thelonious Monk: Deep Cuts
Focusing on the pianist's many ways of approaching a tune.
Thelonious Monk: Deep Cuts

About Thelonious Monk

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Genre
Jazz
Composer, bandleader, and pianist Thelonious Monk was one of the defining architects of modern jazz and bebop, acclaimed for his inventive improvisational style. ∙ Monk got his first big break in the early 1940s as the pianist at Minton’s Playhouse in Harlem, where he jammed with such other bebop pioneers as Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. ∙ Jazz sax legend Coleman Hawkins hired Monk for the pianist’s first studio recording, and one of bebop’s seminal sessions, in 1944. ∙ In 1947, Monk first recorded his classic “’Round Midnight,” which has gone on to be the most-covered jazz standard of all time, by artists ranging from Miles Davis to Amy Winehouse. ∙ His 1957 Carnegie Hall performance with John Coltrane went unreleased until 2005, at which point it spent 91 weeks on the Billboard Traditional Jazz Albums chart, peaking at No. 2. ∙ TIME magazine featured him on its cover in 1964, following the release of his most commercially successful album, Monk’s Dream. ∙ He won a Lifetime Achievement Award Grammy in 1993 and was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize Special Citation in 2006, for his “significant and enduring impact on the evolution of jazz.” ∙ The BBC ranked Monk at No. 8 on their list of the greatest jazz artists of all time, just behind Billie Holiday.
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