Thelonoius Monk is one of the most influential jazz pianists and composers of the last century. One of his most famous compositions, Round Midnight, a piece in which the style of Monk is well recognized all notes are equally firmly and clearly played. The abrupt termination of some nuts characterizes the pianist. Monk has over thirty years of success and play with the greatest jazz artists such as
… Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins. He did occasionally suffer from mental illness and the mid-seventies he retreats into a nursing home. There is however a piano, but Monk never played more. In 1982 Thelonious Monk dies at the age of 64 from a stroke.more