{"id":7833,"date":"2016-09-18T13:17:28","date_gmt":"2016-09-18T20:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=7833"},"modified":"2016-09-18T13:29:01","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T20:29:01","slug":"weekend-extra-three-views-of-thelonious-monk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2016\/09\/weekend-extra-three-views-of-thelonious-monk\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Extra: Three Views Of Thelonious Monk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7831\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Unknown-e1474226871815.jpeg\" alt=\"unknown\" width=\"200\" height=\"199\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the early 70s when I was anchoring at Channel 11 in New York, I took a film crew (remember film?) to Lincoln Center to do a feature about the Giants Of Jazz, the group with Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Stitt, Kai Winding, Al McKibbon and Art Blakey. Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s set the scene with a piece written by Monk and introduced by Gillespie on the band\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 1971 world tour.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3xctYcrcVFo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Returning to New York during the same period, the Giants were rehearsing in late morning for a concert. We did the filming and interviews and afterward the band, the crew and assorted Lincoln Centerites milled around and socialized onstage. I knew everyone in the group, but<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7832\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Unknown-1-e1474226963446.jpeg\" alt=\"unknown-1\" width=\"142\" height=\"210\" \/> Monk. Dizzy brought him over and introduced us. Monk stood staring into my eyes, expressionless. I remember thinking how big he was. Time passed, maybe a minute that seemed like five. Still no expression. Gillespie stood by, grinning. Then Monk put his hand out and shook mine. It was like something out of a Tuesday Rotary Club meeting. He broke into a grin and said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m very pleased to meet you.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what we should have filmed. Later, Diz told me, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve never seen him do that before.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d For at least a few minutes, he wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t the Thelonious described by Lewis Lapham in a lovely piece for <em>The Saturday Evening Post<\/em> in 1964.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Lapham article, a long one, is now online. To read it, <a href=\"http:\/\/reprints.longform.org\/monk-lapham#chapter-117307\" target=\"_blank\">go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the early 70s when I was anchoring at Channel 11 in New York, I took a film crew (remember film?) to Lincoln Center to do a feature about the Giants Of Jazz, the group with Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Stitt, Kai Winding, Al McKibbon and Art Blakey. Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s set the scene with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7833","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-main","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}