Thelonious Monk Scribbles a List of Tips for Playing a Gig

[Phillip Greenlief]

actually, it is a common misunderstanding that monk "wrote" these phrases; it was the late, great soprano saxophonist steve lacy that committed these words to paper. 

i met charlie rouse, who played in monk's classic quartet, and rouse showed me several of monk's compositions, in monk's own handwriting ...

i met lacy in the early 80's and knew him pretty well over the years leading up to his passing ... and having seen his compositions on numerous ocassions, i can verify that the handwriting here is lacy's, not monk's ... in fact lacy told me that he collected these phrases while working with monk in the mid-1950's. 

but thanks for sharing them - some wisdom worth passing on.


sent from phillip's iPhone

On Sep 28, 2012, at 9:26 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

http://www.openculture.com/2012/09/thelonious_monk_scribbles_a_list_of_tips_for_playing_a_gig.html

McClintic Sphere

http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=McClintic_Sphere

Does McClintic Sphere in V. stand for Thelonious Monk?

http://web.archive.org/web/20110719161859/http://www.howardm.net/tsmonk/pynchon.php

"It's always night, or we wouldn't need light" -- Thelonious Monk

http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_1-25#Epigraph

http://chumpsofchoice.blogspot.com/2006/12/that-thelonious-monk-epigraph.html