Mondo Jazz

ONE MILLION DOLLAR BABY

E' comparsa su E-Bay una pagina scritta dal quindicenne studente Thelonious Monk nel 1933. Si tratta di un compito a casa, un tema dal titolo My Favorite Magazine scritto e poi firmato dal grande Thelonious.

Se siete collezionisti di memorabilia eccone una descrizione, senza però dimenticare il prezzo richiesto, un milione di dollari....... Affrettatevi o qualcuno vi porterà via l'affare ! 

Offered here is one of the most important pieces of jazz memorabilia ever made available to the public: the tenth-grade high school essay notebook of Thelonious Sphere Monk. Mr. Monk was a student of New York City's highly regarded Stuyvesant High School and only fifteen years old at the time -- a pivotal time in his life as he tested the academic waters before making the life-defining decision to lean away from academics to throw himself into music as a serious profession.

Thelonious Monk was not only one of the most important innovators of jazz piano in the history of American music, but is arguably the genre's most important composer. He is the second most recorded composer in jazz history, only surpassed by Duke Ellington in sheer volume. This is an especially remarkable feat when one considers that Ellington's career yielded over one thousand compositions, while Monk's only yielded around seventy. Monk was also one of only five jazz musicians ever to appear on the cover of Time Magazine, the others being Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Dave Brubeck and Wynton Marsalis.

Vedi e leggi tutto cliccando qui: http://www.ebay.com/itm/THELONIOUS-MONK-Hand-Written-High-School-Essay-Notebook-JAZZ-PIANO-Autograph-/370700347830