Thelonious Sphere Monk (Rocky Mount, North Carolina 10th October 1917 - Har… Read Full Bio ↴Thelonious Sphere Monk (Rocky Mount, North Carolina 10th October 1917 - Hartsdale, New York 17th February 1982) was a jazz pianist and composer.
Widely considered as one of the most important musicians in jazz -- he is one of only five jazz musicians to be featured on the cover of Time -- 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."
He could play be-bop but commented that be-bop "sounds like dixieland to me." His compositions and improvisations are full of dissonant harmonies and angular melodic twists, and are impossible to separate from Monk's unorthodox approach to the piano, which combined a highly percussive attack with abrupt, dramatic use of silences and hesitations; a style nicknamed "Melodious Thunk" by his wife Nellie.
Early life
Monk was born 10th October 1917 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, the son of Thelonious and Barbara Monk, two years after his sister Marian. A brother, Thomas, was born a couple of years later. In 1922, the family moved to 243 West 63rd Street, in Manhattan. Monk started playing the piano at the age of six. Although he had some formal training and eavesdropped on his sister's piano lessons, he was essentially self-taught. Monk attended Stuyvesant High School, but did not graduate. He briefly toured with an evangelist in his teens, playing the church organ, and in his late teens he began to find work playing jazz.
Monk is believed to be the pianist featured on recordings Jerry Newman made around 1941 at Minton's Playhouse, the legendary Manhattan club where Monk was the house pianist. Monk's style at the time was described as "hard-swinging," with the addition of runs in the style of Art Tatum. Monk's stated influences include Duke Ellington, James P. Johnson, and other early stride pianists. Monk's unique piano style was largely perfected during his stint as the house pianist at Minton's in the early-to-mid 1940s, when he participated in the famous after-hours "cutting competitions" that featured most of the leading jazz soloists of the day. The Minton's scene was crucial in the formulation of the bebop genre and it brought Monk into close contact and collaboration with other leading exponents of bebop, including Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Christian, Kenny Clarke, Charlie Parker and later, Miles Davis.
Early recordings (1944–1954)
In 1944 Monk made his first studio recordings with the Coleman Hawkins Quartet. Hawkins was among the first prominent jazz musicians to promote Monk, and Monk later returned the favor by inviting Hawkins to join him on the 1957 session with John Coltrane. Monk made his first recordings as leader for Blue Note in 1947 (later anthologised on Genius of Modern Music, Vol. 1) which showcased his talents as a composer of original melodies for improvisation. Monk married Nellie Smith the same year, and in 1949 the couple had a son, T.S. Monk, who later became a jazz drummer. A daughter, Barbara (affectionately known as Boo-Boo), was born in 1953.
In August 1951, New York City police searched a parked car occupied by Monk and friend Bud Powell. The police found narcotics in the car, presumed to have belonged to Powell. Monk refused to testify against his friend, so the police confiscated his New York City Cabaret Card. Without the all-important cabaret card he was unable to play in any New York venue where liquor was served, and this severely restricted his ability to perform for several crucial years. Monk spent most of the early and mid-1950s composing, recording, and performing at theaters and out-of-town gigs.
After his cycle of intermittent recording sessions for Blue Note during 1947–1952, he was under contract to Prestige Records for the following two years. With Prestige he cut several under-recognized, but highly significant albums, including collaborations with saxophonist Sonny Rollins and drummer Art Blakey. In 1954, Monk participated in the famed Christmas Eve sessions which produced the albums Bags' Groove and Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants by Miles Davis. Davis found Monk's idiosyncratic accompaniment style difficult to improvise over and asked him to lay out (not accompany), which almost brought them to blows. However, in Miles Davis' autobiography Miles, Davis claims that the anger and tension between Monk and himself never took place and that the claims of blows being exchanged were "rumors" and a "misunderstanding."
In 1954, Monk paid his first visit to Europe, performing and recording in Paris. It was here that he first met Baroness Pannonica "Nica" de Koenigswarter, a member of the Rothschild banking family of England and a patroness of several New York City jazz musicians. She would be a close friend for the rest of Monk's life.
Riverside Records (1954–1961)
At the time of his signing to Riverside, Monk was highly regarded by his peers and by some critics, but his records did not sell in significant numbers, and his music was still regarded as too "difficult" for mass-market acceptance. Indeed, with Monk's consent, Riverside had managed to buy out his previous Prestige contract for a mere $108.24. His breakthrough came thanks to a compromise between Monk and the label, which convinced him to record two albums of his interpretations of jazz standards.
His debut for Riverside, which featured bass innovator Oscar Pettiford, was built around Monk's distinctive interpretations of selection of well-known pieces by Duke Ellington, including "Caravan" and "It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)". The resulting LP, Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington, was designed to bring Monk to a wider audience, and pave the way for a broader acceptance of his unique style. According to recording producer Orrin Keepnews, Monk appeared unfamiliar with the Ellington tunes and spent a long time reading the sheet music and picking the melodies out on the piano keys. Given Monk's long history of playing, it seems unlikely that he didn't know Ellington's music, and it has been surmised that Monk's seeming ignorance of the material was a manifestation of his typically perverse humor, combined with an unstated reluctance to prove his own musical competency by playing other composers' works (even at this late date, there were still critics who carped that Monk "couldn't play").
Finally, on the 1956 LP Brilliant Corners, Monk was able to record his own music. The complex title track, which featured tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins, was so difficult to play that the final version had to be edited together from three separate takes. The album, however, was largely regarded as the first success for Monk; according to Orrin Keepnews, "It was the first that made a real splash."
After having his cabaret card restored, Monk relaunched his New York career with a landmark six-month residency at the Five Spot Cafe in New York beginning in June 1957, leading a quartet that included John Coltrane on tenor saxophone, Wilbur Ware on bass, and Shadow Wilson on drums. Unfortunately little of this group's music was documented, apparently because of contractual problems, Coltrane signed to Prestige at the time. One studio session was made by Riverside but only later released on Jazzland; an amateur tape from the Five Spot (not the original residency, it seems, but a later 1958 reunion) was uncovered in the 1990s and issued on Blue Note. On November 29 that year the quartet performed at Carnegie Hall and the concert was recorded in high fidelity by the Voice of America broadcasting service. The long-lost tape of that concert was rediscovered in the collection of the Library of Congress in January 2005. In 1958 Johnny Griffin took Coltrane's place as tenor player in Monk's band.
In 1958, Monk and de Koenigswarter were detained by police in Wilmington, Delaware. When Monk refused to answer the policemen's questions or cooperate with them, they beat him with a blackjack. Though the police were authorized to search the vehicle and found narcotics in suitcases held in the trunk of the Baroness's car, Judge Christie of the Delaware Superior Court ruled that the unlawful detention of the pair, and the beating of Monk, rendered the consent to the search void as given under duress. State v. De Koenigswarter, 177 A.2d 344 (Del. Super. 1962). Monk was represented by Theophilus Nix, the second African-American member of the Delaware Bar Association.
Columbia Records (1962–1970)
In 1962, Monk signed to Columbia Records, one of the big four American record labels of the day along with RCA Victor, Capitol, and Decca. He had not recorded a studio album since 5 By Monk By 5 in June of 1959, a year that had seen the dual innovations of free jazz by Ornette Coleman, and modal jazz by Miles Davis via his landmark LP on Columbia, Kind of Blue, enter the jazz world. Monk jumped ship to Columbia as he ran out his contract to Riverside via a series of live albums, working with producer Teo Macero on his debut for the label.[3] Featuring a stable line-up that had been with him for two years, tenor saxophonist Charlie Rouse, bassist John Ore, and drummer Frankie Dunlop, sessions in the first week of November yielded the Columbia debut released in 1963, Monk's Dream.
The resources at Columbia allowed Monk to be promoted more widely than earlier in his career. Monk's Dream would remain the best-selling LP of his lifetime, and on February 28, 1964, Monk appeared on the cover of Time magazine, and was featured in the article, "The Loneliest Monk". He continued to record a number of well-reviewed studio albums, particularly the debut, Criss Cross also from 1963, and Underground from 1968. But by the Columbia period his compositional output was much reduced, and only his final Columbia studio record Underground featured a substantial number of new tunes, including his only waltz time piece, "Ugly Beauty."
As had been the case with Riverside, his period with Columbia Records contains many live albums, including Miles and Monk at Newport from 1963, Live at the It Club and Live at the Jazz Workshop, both from 1964 with the latter relased in 1982. After the departure of Ore and Dunlop, the rhythm section of Monk's quartet during the bulk of his Columbia period was rounded out by Larry Gales on bass and Ben Riley on drums, both of whom joined in 1964 and would, along with Rouse, be his longest-serving band for over four years.
Later life
Monk had disappeared from the scene by the mid-1970s, and made only a small number of appearances during the final decade of his life. His last studio recordings were completed in November 1971, near the end of a worldwide tour with "The Giants of Jazz", which also included Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt, Art Blakey, Kai Winding and Al McKibbon.Monk's manner was idiosyncratic. Visually, he was renowned for his distinctively "hip" sartorial style in suits, hats and sunglasses, and he developed an unusual, highly syncopated and percussive manner of playing piano. He was also noted for the fact that at times he would stop playing, stand up from the keyboard and dance while turning in a clockwise fashion, ring-shout style, while the other musicians in the combo played. Bassist Al McKibbon, who had known Monk for over twenty years and played on his final tour in 1971, later said: "On that tour Monk said about two words. I mean literally maybe two words. He didn't say 'Good morning', 'Goodnight', 'What time?' Nothing. Why, I don't know. He sent word back after the tour was over that the reason he couldn't communicate or play was that Art Blakey and I were so ugly." A different side of Monk is revealed in Lewis Porter's biography, John Coltrane: His Life and Music; Coltrane states: "Monk is exactly the opposite of Miles [Davis]: he talks about music all the time, and he wants so much for you to understand that if, by chance, you ask him something, he'll spend hours if necessary to explain it to you."
The documentary film Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser (1988) attributes Monk's quirky behaviour to mental illness. In the film, Monk's son, T.S. Monk, says that his father sometimes did not recognize him, and he reports that Monk was hospitalized on several occasions due to an unspecified mental illness that worsened in the late 1960s. No reports or diagnoses were ever publicized, but Monk would often become excited for two or three days, pace for days after that, after which he would withdraw and stop speaking. Physicians recommended electroconvulsive therapy as a treatment option for Monk's illness, but his family would not allow it; antipsychotics and lithium were prescribed instead.[8][9] Other theories abound: Leslie Gourse, author of the book Straight, No Chaser: The Life and Genius of Thelonious Monk (1997), reports that at least one of Monk's psychiatrists failed to find evidence of manic depression or schizophrenia. Others blamed Monk's behavior on intentional and inadvertent drug use: Monk was unknowingly administered LSD, and may have taken peyote with Timothy Leary. Another physician maintains that Monk was misdiagnosed and given drugs during his hospital stay that may have caused brain damage.
As his health declined, Monk's last six years were spent as a guest in the New Jersey home of his long-standing patron, Baroness Nica de Koenigswarter, who had also nursed Charlie Parker during his final illness. Monk didn't play the piano during this time, even though one was present in his room, and he spoke to few visitors. Monk died of a stroke on February 17, 1982 and was buried in Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York. Since his death, his music has been rediscovered by a wider audience and he is now counted alongside the likes of Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and others as a major figure in the history of jazz. In 1993, he was posthumously awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 2006, Monk was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation.
Widely considered as one of the most important musicians in jazz -- he is one of only five jazz musicians to be featured on the cover of Time -- 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."
He could play be-bop but commented that be-bop "sounds like dixieland to me." His compositions and improvisations are full of dissonant harmonies and angular melodic twists, and are impossible to separate from Monk's unorthodox approach to the piano, which combined a highly percussive attack with abrupt, dramatic use of silences and hesitations; a style nicknamed "Melodious Thunk" by his wife Nellie.
Early life
Monk was born 10th October 1917 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, the son of Thelonious and Barbara Monk, two years after his sister Marian. A brother, Thomas, was born a couple of years later. In 1922, the family moved to 243 West 63rd Street, in Manhattan. Monk started playing the piano at the age of six. Although he had some formal training and eavesdropped on his sister's piano lessons, he was essentially self-taught. Monk attended Stuyvesant High School, but did not graduate. He briefly toured with an evangelist in his teens, playing the church organ, and in his late teens he began to find work playing jazz.
Monk is believed to be the pianist featured on recordings Jerry Newman made around 1941 at Minton's Playhouse, the legendary Manhattan club where Monk was the house pianist. Monk's style at the time was described as "hard-swinging," with the addition of runs in the style of Art Tatum. Monk's stated influences include Duke Ellington, James P. Johnson, and other early stride pianists. Monk's unique piano style was largely perfected during his stint as the house pianist at Minton's in the early-to-mid 1940s, when he participated in the famous after-hours "cutting competitions" that featured most of the leading jazz soloists of the day. The Minton's scene was crucial in the formulation of the bebop genre and it brought Monk into close contact and collaboration with other leading exponents of bebop, including Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Christian, Kenny Clarke, Charlie Parker and later, Miles Davis.
Early recordings (1944–1954)
In 1944 Monk made his first studio recordings with the Coleman Hawkins Quartet. Hawkins was among the first prominent jazz musicians to promote Monk, and Monk later returned the favor by inviting Hawkins to join him on the 1957 session with John Coltrane. Monk made his first recordings as leader for Blue Note in 1947 (later anthologised on Genius of Modern Music, Vol. 1) which showcased his talents as a composer of original melodies for improvisation. Monk married Nellie Smith the same year, and in 1949 the couple had a son, T.S. Monk, who later became a jazz drummer. A daughter, Barbara (affectionately known as Boo-Boo), was born in 1953.
In August 1951, New York City police searched a parked car occupied by Monk and friend Bud Powell. The police found narcotics in the car, presumed to have belonged to Powell. Monk refused to testify against his friend, so the police confiscated his New York City Cabaret Card. Without the all-important cabaret card he was unable to play in any New York venue where liquor was served, and this severely restricted his ability to perform for several crucial years. Monk spent most of the early and mid-1950s composing, recording, and performing at theaters and out-of-town gigs.
After his cycle of intermittent recording sessions for Blue Note during 1947–1952, he was under contract to Prestige Records for the following two years. With Prestige he cut several under-recognized, but highly significant albums, including collaborations with saxophonist Sonny Rollins and drummer Art Blakey. In 1954, Monk participated in the famed Christmas Eve sessions which produced the albums Bags' Groove and Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants by Miles Davis. Davis found Monk's idiosyncratic accompaniment style difficult to improvise over and asked him to lay out (not accompany), which almost brought them to blows. However, in Miles Davis' autobiography Miles, Davis claims that the anger and tension between Monk and himself never took place and that the claims of blows being exchanged were "rumors" and a "misunderstanding."
In 1954, Monk paid his first visit to Europe, performing and recording in Paris. It was here that he first met Baroness Pannonica "Nica" de Koenigswarter, a member of the Rothschild banking family of England and a patroness of several New York City jazz musicians. She would be a close friend for the rest of Monk's life.
Riverside Records (1954–1961)
At the time of his signing to Riverside, Monk was highly regarded by his peers and by some critics, but his records did not sell in significant numbers, and his music was still regarded as too "difficult" for mass-market acceptance. Indeed, with Monk's consent, Riverside had managed to buy out his previous Prestige contract for a mere $108.24. His breakthrough came thanks to a compromise between Monk and the label, which convinced him to record two albums of his interpretations of jazz standards.
His debut for Riverside, which featured bass innovator Oscar Pettiford, was built around Monk's distinctive interpretations of selection of well-known pieces by Duke Ellington, including "Caravan" and "It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)". The resulting LP, Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington, was designed to bring Monk to a wider audience, and pave the way for a broader acceptance of his unique style. According to recording producer Orrin Keepnews, Monk appeared unfamiliar with the Ellington tunes and spent a long time reading the sheet music and picking the melodies out on the piano keys. Given Monk's long history of playing, it seems unlikely that he didn't know Ellington's music, and it has been surmised that Monk's seeming ignorance of the material was a manifestation of his typically perverse humor, combined with an unstated reluctance to prove his own musical competency by playing other composers' works (even at this late date, there were still critics who carped that Monk "couldn't play").
Finally, on the 1956 LP Brilliant Corners, Monk was able to record his own music. The complex title track, which featured tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins, was so difficult to play that the final version had to be edited together from three separate takes. The album, however, was largely regarded as the first success for Monk; according to Orrin Keepnews, "It was the first that made a real splash."
After having his cabaret card restored, Monk relaunched his New York career with a landmark six-month residency at the Five Spot Cafe in New York beginning in June 1957, leading a quartet that included John Coltrane on tenor saxophone, Wilbur Ware on bass, and Shadow Wilson on drums. Unfortunately little of this group's music was documented, apparently because of contractual problems, Coltrane signed to Prestige at the time. One studio session was made by Riverside but only later released on Jazzland; an amateur tape from the Five Spot (not the original residency, it seems, but a later 1958 reunion) was uncovered in the 1990s and issued on Blue Note. On November 29 that year the quartet performed at Carnegie Hall and the concert was recorded in high fidelity by the Voice of America broadcasting service. The long-lost tape of that concert was rediscovered in the collection of the Library of Congress in January 2005. In 1958 Johnny Griffin took Coltrane's place as tenor player in Monk's band.
In 1958, Monk and de Koenigswarter were detained by police in Wilmington, Delaware. When Monk refused to answer the policemen's questions or cooperate with them, they beat him with a blackjack. Though the police were authorized to search the vehicle and found narcotics in suitcases held in the trunk of the Baroness's car, Judge Christie of the Delaware Superior Court ruled that the unlawful detention of the pair, and the beating of Monk, rendered the consent to the search void as given under duress. State v. De Koenigswarter, 177 A.2d 344 (Del. Super. 1962). Monk was represented by Theophilus Nix, the second African-American member of the Delaware Bar Association.
Columbia Records (1962–1970)
In 1962, Monk signed to Columbia Records, one of the big four American record labels of the day along with RCA Victor, Capitol, and Decca. He had not recorded a studio album since 5 By Monk By 5 in June of 1959, a year that had seen the dual innovations of free jazz by Ornette Coleman, and modal jazz by Miles Davis via his landmark LP on Columbia, Kind of Blue, enter the jazz world. Monk jumped ship to Columbia as he ran out his contract to Riverside via a series of live albums, working with producer Teo Macero on his debut for the label.[3] Featuring a stable line-up that had been with him for two years, tenor saxophonist Charlie Rouse, bassist John Ore, and drummer Frankie Dunlop, sessions in the first week of November yielded the Columbia debut released in 1963, Monk's Dream.
The resources at Columbia allowed Monk to be promoted more widely than earlier in his career. Monk's Dream would remain the best-selling LP of his lifetime, and on February 28, 1964, Monk appeared on the cover of Time magazine, and was featured in the article, "The Loneliest Monk". He continued to record a number of well-reviewed studio albums, particularly the debut, Criss Cross also from 1963, and Underground from 1968. But by the Columbia period his compositional output was much reduced, and only his final Columbia studio record Underground featured a substantial number of new tunes, including his only waltz time piece, "Ugly Beauty."
As had been the case with Riverside, his period with Columbia Records contains many live albums, including Miles and Monk at Newport from 1963, Live at the It Club and Live at the Jazz Workshop, both from 1964 with the latter relased in 1982. After the departure of Ore and Dunlop, the rhythm section of Monk's quartet during the bulk of his Columbia period was rounded out by Larry Gales on bass and Ben Riley on drums, both of whom joined in 1964 and would, along with Rouse, be his longest-serving band for over four years.
Later life
Monk had disappeared from the scene by the mid-1970s, and made only a small number of appearances during the final decade of his life. His last studio recordings were completed in November 1971, near the end of a worldwide tour with "The Giants of Jazz", which also included Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt, Art Blakey, Kai Winding and Al McKibbon.Monk's manner was idiosyncratic. Visually, he was renowned for his distinctively "hip" sartorial style in suits, hats and sunglasses, and he developed an unusual, highly syncopated and percussive manner of playing piano. He was also noted for the fact that at times he would stop playing, stand up from the keyboard and dance while turning in a clockwise fashion, ring-shout style, while the other musicians in the combo played. Bassist Al McKibbon, who had known Monk for over twenty years and played on his final tour in 1971, later said: "On that tour Monk said about two words. I mean literally maybe two words. He didn't say 'Good morning', 'Goodnight', 'What time?' Nothing. Why, I don't know. He sent word back after the tour was over that the reason he couldn't communicate or play was that Art Blakey and I were so ugly." A different side of Monk is revealed in Lewis Porter's biography, John Coltrane: His Life and Music; Coltrane states: "Monk is exactly the opposite of Miles [Davis]: he talks about music all the time, and he wants so much for you to understand that if, by chance, you ask him something, he'll spend hours if necessary to explain it to you."
The documentary film Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser (1988) attributes Monk's quirky behaviour to mental illness. In the film, Monk's son, T.S. Monk, says that his father sometimes did not recognize him, and he reports that Monk was hospitalized on several occasions due to an unspecified mental illness that worsened in the late 1960s. No reports or diagnoses were ever publicized, but Monk would often become excited for two or three days, pace for days after that, after which he would withdraw and stop speaking. Physicians recommended electroconvulsive therapy as a treatment option for Monk's illness, but his family would not allow it; antipsychotics and lithium were prescribed instead.[8][9] Other theories abound: Leslie Gourse, author of the book Straight, No Chaser: The Life and Genius of Thelonious Monk (1997), reports that at least one of Monk's psychiatrists failed to find evidence of manic depression or schizophrenia. Others blamed Monk's behavior on intentional and inadvertent drug use: Monk was unknowingly administered LSD, and may have taken peyote with Timothy Leary. Another physician maintains that Monk was misdiagnosed and given drugs during his hospital stay that may have caused brain damage.
As his health declined, Monk's last six years were spent as a guest in the New Jersey home of his long-standing patron, Baroness Nica de Koenigswarter, who had also nursed Charlie Parker during his final illness. Monk didn't play the piano during this time, even though one was present in his room, and he spoke to few visitors. Monk died of a stroke on February 17, 1982 and was buried in Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York. Since his death, his music has been rediscovered by a wider audience and he is now counted alongside the likes of Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and others as a major figure in the history of jazz. In 1993, he was posthumously awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 2006, Monk was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation.
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Ella Fitzgerald And Count Basie I'm discontented with homes that I've rented So I have inven…
Ella Fitzgerald feat. Count Basie I'm discontented with homes that I've rented So I have inve…
Eric Rogers & His Orchestra Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-ooh Oh honey Picture me upon …
Eyde Gorme & Steve Lawrence Picture you upon my knee, Just tea for two and…
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Fats Waller I'm discontented with homes that are rented so I have…
Frank Sinatra He: I'm discontented with homes that are rented so I…
Frank Sinatra & Doris Day Picture you upon my knee Just tea for two and two…
Frank Sinatra & His Orchestra Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-ooh Oh honey Picture me upon …
Frank Sinatra Dean Martin He: I'm discontented with homes that are rented so I…
Frank Sinatra with Axel Stordahl & His Orchestra Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-ooh Oh honey Picture me upon …
Gene Krupa Picture you upon my knee, Just tea for two and…
Gene Krupa & Anita O'Day Picture you upon my knee, Just tea for two and…
Gene Krupa & His Orchestra Picture you upon my knee, Just tea for two and…
Georges Jouvin and His Orchestra Tea For Two Tony Bennett (Irving Caesar/Vincent Youmans) I…
Gordon MacRae Picture you upon my knee Just tea for two and two…
Greg and Junko MacDonald The sun, . . . is shining, Tell me what are…
Hit Co. Big Band Picture you upon my knee Just tea for two And two for…
Irving Caesar Picture you upon my knee, Just tea for two and…
Irving Caesar & Vincent Youmans Picture you upon my knee, Just tea for two and…
J. Lawrence Cook Ride for me I told her ride for me Ride for me Ride…
J. Terrason & C. Wilson Picture you upon my knee, Just tea for two and…
J.J. Johnson Joe Henderson Kenny Burrell Herbie Hancock Ray Brown Kenny Washington I still got what the fuck you need nigga What you…
Jack Harris and His Orchestra Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-ooh Oh honey Picture me upon …
Jackie Terrasson & Cassandra Wilson I'm discontented with homes that I've rented So I have inven…
Jan Garber & His Orchestra Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-ooh Oh honey Picture me upon …
Jan Garber And His Orchestra Tea For Two Tony Bennett (Irving Caesar/Vincent Youmans) I…
Jane Froman & George Greeley And His Orchestra And Chorus Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-ooh Oh honey Picture me upon …
Jane Monheit Picture you upon my knee Just tea for two And two for…
Jean Kikteff I'm discontented with homes that are rented so I have…
Jerry Fielding and His Orchestra Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-ooh Oh honey Picture me upon …
Jessica Molaskey/John Pizzarelli Picture you upon my knee, Just tea for two and two…
Jimmy Johnson And His Orchestra Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-ooh Oh honey Picture me upon …
Jo Stafford He: I'm discontented with homes that are rented so I…
Jo Stafford & Gordon Macrae Picture you upon my knee Just tea for two and two…
Jo Stafford and Gordon MacRae He: I'm discontented with homes that are rented so I…
Joe Loss & His Orchestra Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-ooh Oh honey Picture me upon …
Joe Loss and His Orchestra Tea For Two Tony Bennett (Irving Caesar/Vincent Youmans) I…
Joe Mooney Quartet Tea For Two as by Joe Mooney Do you long for…
Joe Williams & Count Basie I'm discontented with homes that I've rented So I have inven…
Johnny Hodges & His Orchestra Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-ooh Oh honey Picture me upon …
Jonnine There are two ghosts in the graveyard They are having tea…
Julie Andrews I'm discontented with homes that are rented So I have invent…
Keely Smith & Louis Prima Picture you upon my knee, Just tea for two and…
Larry Green And His Orchestra Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-ooh Oh honey Picture me upon …
Lawrence Welk Oh honey Picture me upon your knee, With tea for two and…
Lee Wiley I'm discontented with homes that I've rented So I have inve…
Les Brown & His Orchestra Tea For Two Tony Bennett (Irving Caesar/Vincent Youmans) I…
Les Brown and His Band Of Renown Because there's three at a table for two My appointment was…
Les Paul Picture you upon my knee Just tea for two And two for…
Lester Lanin & His Orchestra Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-ooh Oh honey Picture me upon …
Lester Young Picture you upon my knee Just tea for two And two for…
Lester Young & Nat "King" Cole Picture you upon my knee Just tea for two And two for…
Lester Young & The Nat "King" Cole Trio Picture you upon my knee Just tea for two And two for…
Lester Young & The Oscar Peterson Trio Picture you upon my knee Just tea for two And two for…
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Lester Young / Nat King Cole Trio Picture you upon my knee Just tea for two And two for…
Lester Young / Oscar Peterson Picture you upon my knee Just tea for two And two for…
Lester Young and The Oscar Peterson Trio Picture you upon my knee Just tea for two And two for…
Lew Davies & His Orchestra Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-ooh Oh honey Picture me upon …
Lisa Ekdahl Picture me upon your knee, Just tea for two and two…
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Lisa Ono The home of sweet romance (Savoy) It wins you with a glance …
Louis Armstrong Picture you upon my knee Just tea for two And two for…
Louis Armstrong & his All Stars Picture you upon my knee Just tea for two And two for…
Louis Armstrong & His All‐Stars Picture you upon my knee Just tea for two And two for…
Louis Armstrong & The All Stars Picture you upon my knee Just tea for two And two for…
Louis Armstrong and His All Stars Picture you upon my knee Just tea for two And two for…
Louis Armstrong And The All Stars Picture you upon my knee Just tea for two And two for…
Louis Prima Picture you upon my knee, Just tea for two and…
Machito & His Orchestra Tea For Two Tony Bennett (Irving Caesar/Vincent Youmans) I…
Marie-Thérèse Escribano Ich wandte mich und sahe an Alle, die Unrecht leiden unter…
Mars Water I can't feel the sun No, I can't feel it's fun It…
Marthie Nel Hauptfleisch Tea for two Before you come I’ll have No tea When…
Mitch Miller Picture you upon my knee Just tea for two and two…
Morton Gould & His Orchestra Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-ooh Oh honey Picture me upon …
Mrs. Mills She set my '94 four door Ford on fire today So…
Mu-Bone And now I know you know that it was real I've…
Nat King Cole Picture you upon my knee Just tea for two And two for…
Nat King Cole(냇 킹 콜) Picture you upon my knee Just tea for two And two for…
Nat “King" Cole Picture you upon my knee Just tea for two And two for…
O'Day Anita Picture you upon my knee, Just tea for two and…
Oscar Peterson Picture you upon my knee Just tea for two And two for…
Oscar Peterson Quartet Picture you upon my knee Just tea for two And two for…
Oscar Peterson Trio & Lester Young Picture you upon my knee Just tea for two And two for…
Percy Faith and His Orchestra Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-ooh Oh honey Picture me upon …
Pink Martini I'm discontented with homes that I've rented So I have inven…
Pink Martini feat. Jimmy Scott I'm discontented with homes that are rented So I have invent…
Reese Della Picture you upon my knee Just tea for two And two for…
René Touzet & His Orchestra Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-ooh Oh honey Picture me upon …
Rivermaya And when the lights go crashing through the smoke It makes…
Robert Farnon & His Orchestra Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-ooh Oh honey Picture me upon …
Roy Eldridge Tea For Two Tony Bennett (Irving Caesar/Vincent Youmans) …
Russ Case & His Orchestra Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-ooh Oh honey Picture me upon …
Sammy Davis Jr. Oh, honey Picture me upon your knee With tea for two and…
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Sarah Vaughan Picture you upon my knee, Just tea for two and…
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Smokey Robinson I'm discontented with homes that are rented so I have…
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TATUM I'm discontented with homes that are rented so I have…
Tea For Two JIMMY: Picture you upon my knee Just tea for two And two …
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The Harpoonist & The Axe Murderer Oh my love I'm drinking alone in the afternoon. Oh my god I…
The Nat King Cole Trio Picture you upon my knee Just tea for two And two for…
The Ravens I'm discontented with homes that I've rented So I have inven…
The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra He: I'm discontented with homes that are rented so I…
Tito Puente & His Orchestra Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-ooh Oh honey Picture me upon …
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Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-ooh Oh honey Picture me upon …
Tommy Dorsey & Warren Covington He: I'm discontented with homes that are rented so I…
Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-ooh Oh honey Picture me upon …
Tony Bennett Tea For Two Tony Bennett (Irving Caesar/Vincent Youmans) I'…
Trummy Young I'm discontented with homes that are rented so I have…
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Will Bradley and His Orchestra Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-ooh Oh honey Picture me upon …
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Xavier Cugat & His Orchestra Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-ooh Oh honey Picture me upon …
Yael Meyer When our days of youth have passed us by All the…
Youmans Picture you upon my knee, Just tea for two and…
Young Lester Picture you upon my knee Just tea for two And two for…
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We have lyrics for these tracks by Thelonious Monk:
'Round About Midnight It begins to tell 'Round midnight, midnight I do pretty well…
'Round Midnight (take 7) It begins to tell 'round midnight 'Round midnight I do prett…
(I Don't Stand) A Ghost of a Chance (With You) (take 7) I need your love so badly, I love you, oh,…
07. Nice Work If You Can Get It The man who only lives for making money Lives a life…
A Ghost Of A Chance I need your love so badly, I love you, oh,…
Abide With Me Abide with me, fast falls the eventide The darkness deepens,…
April in Paris Coba tanya hatimu sekali lagi Sebelum engkau benar-benar per…
Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea I don't want you, but I'd hate to lose you You've…
Body & Soul My heart is sad and lonely For you I sigh, for…
bye-ya Georgia, Georgia The whole day through Just an old sweet son…
Caravan Night and stars above that shine so bright The myst'ry…
Dinah Carolina Gave me Dinah; I'm the proudest one Beneath the…
Dinah (Take 2) Carolina Gave me Dinah; I'm the proudest one Beneath the Dix…
Don't Blame Me Ever since the lucky night I found you I've hung around…
Everything Happens To Me Black cats creep across my path Until I'm almost mad I must…
Ghost of a chance I need your love so badly, I love you, oh,…
Humph It begins to tell 'Round midnight, midnight I do pretty we…
I Someday he'll come along The man I love And he'll be big…
I Cover The Waterfront I cover the waterfront, I'm watching the sea,, Will the one …
I Don't Stand A Ghost of a Chance With You I need your love so badly, I love you, oh,…
I got it bad and that ain Though folks with good intentions Tell me to save my tears …
I Got Rhythm I've got the world on a string, sittin' on a…
I Hadn't Anyone Till You I hadn't anyone till you, I was a lonely one 'til…
I Let a Song Go Out of My Head I let a song go out of my heart It was…
I Love You Someday he'll come along The man I love And he'll be big…
I Surrender Pride, sad, splendid liar, Sworn enemy of love Kept my…
I Wan't to Be Happy I'm a very ordinary man Trying to work out life's happy…
I'm Gettin' Sentimental Over You Never thought I'd fall, But now I hear love call, I'm gettin…
I've Got The World On A String I've got the world on a string, sittin' on a…
In Walked Bud Dizzie, he was screaming Next to O.P. who was beaming Monk w…
Indiana I have always been a wanderer Over land and sea Yet a…
It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing What good is melody, what good is music If it ain't…
Japanese Folk Song Sakura sakura Noyamamo satomo Miwatasu kagiri Kasumika kumok…
Just You Just Me Just you, just me Let's find a cozy spot To cuddle and…
Let's Cool One Revvin' up your engine Listen to her howlin' roar Metal unde…
Lover Man I don't know why but I'm feeling so sad I long…
Monk's Mood (Instumental)…
Mood Indigo You ain't never been blue; no, no, no, You ain't…
More Than You Know Whether you are here or yonder, Whether you are false…
My Melancholy Baby ... Volver a verte la cara ciudad despintada, no tengo opció…
Nice Work The man who only lives for making money Lives a life…
Rhythm-A-Ning What is this? Lotion music I like this lotion music Swag... …
Round About Midnight It begins to tell 'Round midnight, midnight I do pretty well…
Round Midnight 3 It begins to tell 'Round midnight, midnight I do pretty we…
Round' Midnight It begins to tell 'round midnight 'Round midnight I do prett…
Ruby My Dear Shaquille O'Neal F/ Warren G Miscellaneous My Dear Chorus…
Ruby, My Dear Shaquille O'Neal F/ Warren G Miscellaneous My Dear Chorus 4X…
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes They ask me how I knew My true love was true I…
Solitude In my solitude You haunt me With dreadful ease Of days gone …
Sophisticated Lady Sophisticated lady tryin' to change my ways Just because you…
Sweet & Lovely Sweet and lovely sweeter than the roses in May Sweet and…
Sweet Lorraine Everything is set, skies are blue, Can't believe it yet, bu…
The Man I Love Someday he'll come along The man I love And he'll be big…
The Way You Look Tonight Some day, when I'm awfully low, When the world is cold, I…
Thelonious My heart Is sad and lonely For you I sigh…
These Foolish Things Oh! Will you never let me be? Oh! Will you never…
We See NSYNC New! Tap highlighted lyrics to add Meanings, Special …
Well You Needn't The man who only lives for making money Lives a life…
Who Knows Now what we came here to do It means more to…
Work The man who only lives for making money Lives a life…
You Are Too Beautiful You are too beautiful, my dear, to be true And I…
You Took the Words Right Out of My Heart You took the words right out of my heart, Abd it…
’Round Midnight It begins to tell 'Round midnight, midnight I do pretty well…
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@superkamigurualucardmckee6181
Everybody adds their own spin on it! I love it. Because everyone drinks their tea differently you see. Fats, Oscar, Earl, Art, Willie, and Monk all played it their own way but that's how life is no matter who you are having tea with everyone takes it differently 😂
@guslinton
In 1961 I bought the postage stamp Monk album and brought it back to my college apartment. My roommate and I sat on the floor to listen to it. Tea for Two was the first song and within a minute or two we were both rolling on the floor with laughter.
Monk was a genius!
@graphssleepwalk
Anyone who has ever tried to learn a monk song on piano knows how incredible his genius is phrase to phrase and in between.
@rumwoldleigh2544
This is the first Monk I ever heard, so glad to hear it again. I got him from day one, as far as he can be got.
@TonyWud
rumwoldleigh It was Day One when I got him.
@eugeneeum4075
Not me. I thought he was a total hack, someone with no technique trying to look "unique" by being weird. But the years taught me otherwise.. perhaps one of the, if not THE, most genius composer in all of jazz past and present. His solo works particularly move me (Don't Blame Me, Just a Gigolo, Crepuscule for Nellie). All three have actual video footage :)
@ExecutionSommaire
@Eugene Eum Exact same for me, I was quite blind to his genius. Thinking I could emulate him just by throwing a whole-tone scales here and there. Good thing I've grown up.
@oza8578
Same here. I got him from day one from the first time I heard him. One of my all time musical heroes (regardless of genre or instrument). The man was a true genius and innovator.
@superkamigurualucardmckee6181
With me I realized he was special because of how all the greats praised him but I admit I first I didn't fully quite understand him myself but it sinks into you over time and as you hear more and learn more you see wow he really was an original individual as a pianist in every aspect everyone has their favorites but my top three favs will always be Thelonious Monk, Fats Waller, and Dave Brubeck because in my opinion they were the most distinct and the ones who changed things by being experimental and true to themselves
@agustine.alvarez9832
Marvelous Pettiford playing bass with arc and sing the melody with the Monk.