somethingfortheladies: Thelonious Monk – “‘Round Midnight” Who...

somethingfortheladies:

Thelonious Monk – “‘Round Midnight”

Who on Earth would host a jazz week without mentioning Thelonious Monk? One of the founding fathers of modern jazz, the monk was another one of those standards-establishing masterful musicians whose name is now mentioned in almost a whisper. It’s nearly impossible to choose between the countless versions of his most famous composition “‘Round Midnight,” which has been performed and re-interpreted by hundreds of musicians over the past seventy years, including most of the musicians we’ve featured this week.