![]() With his cabaret card reinstated and beginning a series of recordings on Riversidesome of the best of his careerMonk started a five-month run at the Five Spot with his quartet, featuring a 31 year-old John Coltrane. While he recorded a series of significant albums for Blue Note and Prestige from the late 1940s through the mid-1950s, his refusal to travel and lack of a cabaret card in New York meant that he would have to wait for greater fame. Coupled with his somewhat eccentric personal behaviour, his playing alienated those more steeped in conventioneven a development as recent as bebop having its own rigid definition. First emerging as part of the crew of New York musicians spearheading the bebop movement in the 1940s, including saxophonist Charlie Parker and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, he quickly differentiated himself with an idiosyncratic and seemingly unschooled approach. The impact of the late pianist/composer Thelonious Monk on modern jazz is almost impossible to quantify. ![]()
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