TS Monk
Thelonious Sphere "TS" Monk, Jr. (* 27. December 1949 in New York City , New York) is an American jazz - drummer , percussionist and composer of the post bop .
Live and act
Monk made his stage debut at the age of ten alongside his father Thelonious Monk . After working outside of jazz for a period of his professional life, Monk founded a trio named after him with his sister Barbara "Boo Boo" Monk and his fiancée Yvonne Fletcher in the early 1980s, in which he also worked as a singer. The 1980 debut album House of Music contained two hits that were successful in the R&B charts: Bon Bon Vie (Gimme the Good Life) and Candidate for Love . With More of the Good Life (1981) and Human (1982) two more albums were created that were less successful. Barbara Monk and Yvonne Fletcher both died of breast cancer within a few months in 1983 and 1984, respectively. Monk then formed the short-lived duo Merc And Monk with Eric Mercury, which released a self-titled album. After this project was hardly successful and the previous blows of fate still had an effect, Monk paused between 1985 and 1990.
In the 1990s, after the more funk-oriented recordings of his previous bands, Monk turned to his father's work and recapitulated the sound of the classic hard bop recordings of the Blue Note label. He achieved this in particular with the album Monk on Monk , which he made in 1997 with guest musicians such as Clark Terry , Arturo Sandoval , Roy Hargrove , John Clark , Bobby Watson , Wayne Shorter , Jimmy Heath , Howard Johnson , Geri Allen , Herbie Hancock , Ron Carter , Dave Holland , Christian McBride , Kevin Mahogany and Dianne Reeves and which was exclusively dedicated to his father's compositions . Monk's style of drumming is influenced by Max Roach and Tony Williams .
Discography
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- House of Music (1980)
- More of the Good Life (1981)
- Human (1982)
- Take One (1992)
- Changing of the Guard (1993)
- The Charm (1995)
- Monk on Monk (1997)
- Crosstalk (1999)
- Higher Ground (2003)
- The Remixes (feat. John Morales & Paul Simpson) (2015)
literature
- Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD . 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 .
Web links
Remarks
- ^ Robin Kelley: Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original . Simon and Schuster, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4391-9046-3 ( google.de [accessed May 7, 2020]).
- ^ Nielsen Business Media Inc: Billboard . Nielsen Business Media, Inc., May 10, 1997 ( google.de [accessed May 7, 2020]).
- ↑ Merc and Monk. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
- ↑ Father to Son: TS Monk 'Keeps it in the Family'. Retrieved May 7, 2020 (American English).
- ↑ Quoted from Cook & Morton, p. 1047 f. In the 6th edition of the Penguin Guide of Jazz - with all reservations about the other work of the band leader - the authors rated the work Monk on Monk with the highest grade of four stars and call it "a splendid recording, multi-dimensional, richly textured, carefully thought out and thoroughly satisfying ".
- ↑ a b Chart sources: UK US
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| SURNAME | Monk, TS |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Monk, Thelonious Sphere junior (full name); Monk, TS junior (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz drummer, percussionist and post bop composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 27, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City , New York |