Thelonious Monk’s first known recording was made in 1944, when he worked as a member of the Coleman Hawkins Quartet. In 1941, Monk began working at Minton’s Playhouse in Harlem, where he joined the house band and helped develop the school of jazz known as “bebop.”Īlongside fellow jazz greats, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Eubie Blake, Monk honed his fast and often improvised style that would later become synonymous with modern jazz. Thelonious Monk began studying classical piano at age eleven, and showed an early aptitude for the instrument.īy the time Monk was thirteen years old, he had won the weekly amateur competition at the Apollo Theater so many times that management banned him from re-entering the contest. This was the longest railroad in the world, consisting of more than 160 miles of track. Those train tracks were first established in 1855- before the Civil War- and it was established as the Wilmington to Weldon railroad. Every day, the CSX train and the Amtrak train come through this community as they have done for a very long time. Speaker, incidentally, the City of Rocky Mount, North Carolina is divided between two counties- Nash County and Edgecombe County- and the railroad is the dividing line. Stephenson speculated those railways may have inspired Monk’s composition “Little Rootie Tootie,” which features train whistle sounds. Writer Sam Stephenson credited Thelonious Monk’s Carolina roots in the Oxford American, writing that Rocky Mount’s flourishing tobacco culture and rail yard was one of the largest in all of the South the year Monk was born. Though Monk and his family left Rocky Mount for New York City when Thelonious was a child, scholars and fellow musicians say Monk’s North Carolina roots had an important influence on the man and his music. and Barbara Monk on October 10, 1917, in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Thelonious Sphere Monk was the second of three children born to Thelonious, Sr. Monk was born in my Congressional District in the State of North Carolina and would have turned 100 years old today. Speaker, I rise today to recognize one of the most innovative jazz musicians of all time, the legendary Thelonious Monk. Monk was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina on October 10, 1917.Ĭlick here or on the image above for video of Rep. House of Representatives to honor the life of influential jazz musician Thelonious Monk on his 100th birthday. Butterfield (NC-01) today delivered remarks on the Floor of the U.S.
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