Thelonious monk town hall
Johnson, who lived in his neighborhood, attracted his attention. At the age of 17, he held school for seen, to take a comprehensive tour of the United States with a gospel group, an evangelical preacher and a female ' miracle healer '. In addition to the accompanying band existed further still from a Monk trumpet player, a drummerand a saxophonist .If they are installed in a city, joining the local jazz scene and found Thelonious quickly after his working day, he played in the evening, then on various jam sessions. Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Earl Hines and in particular James p. Thelonious came fast to the audience: he accompanied the church choir of the local Baptist community, in which also his mother sang. He also earned his first tracks as a dance musician at parties. In the meantime he became interested in the jazz even further.
When Thelonious about ten years old, his family got from a good friend a piano as a gift, and his older sister Marion got since that time keyboard instruction. The small Thelonious watched as his sister regularly practiced and he learned it pretty fast read notes. Monk later said even that he learn to play piano has only to look over the shoulder. This watch and observe he found not enough in the long term, especially because he was fascinated by the instrument. Therefore he began to learn to play piano himself. At the age of 11 he got piano lessons for the first time correct and according to Monks said he began immediately thereafter to interest in jazz. Unlike many other families respected the family Monk the musical ambitions of their youngest shoot. In fact, Monks always supported him and allowed him to mother. Came on 10 October 1917 Thelonious Monk (also called Sphere ) in the world in Rocky Mount in North Carolina, in the United States of America. He spent his childhood and his youth in New York, where his family from 1923 stayed at the black quarter of Juan Hill. Especially in this neighborhood, there was always an active music scene.This will have contributed that Thelonious Monk music at this resort is his whole life.