Kelley, discussing and playing the music of jazz icon Thelonious Monk to kick off our annual week celebrating Monk’s birthday. This Thelonious Monk Listening Party features author and historian Robin D.G. The conversation closes with questions from the audience followed by a reception with complimentary drinks and bites. Miner Auditorium, accompanied by the artist’s pick of recorded, and sometimes live, excerpts. The format is an on-stage conversation in the Robert N. Listening Parties offer listeners the chance to get behind-the- scenes and hear about music from the artist’s perspective. In fact, the women in Monk's life turned up a lot in his music "Ruby My Dear" was written for a former girlfriend, "Crepuscule with Nellie" for his wife.Step into the SFJAZZ “living room” and hear artists and tastemakers spinning their favorite recordings while in conversation with SFJAZZ Founder and Executive Artistic Director Randall Kline. She became Monk's muse and patron, giving him money, driving him to gigs and letting him rehearse and record at her home.Įventually, she had a song written about her titled "Pannonica," after her first name. She was a member of the powerful Rothschild family - and a jazz enthusiast. That white woman was the Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter. And once in Delaware when he was traveling with a white woman, when he was going to a gig, and the police pulled up and stopped him." Once for possession of heroin, which wasn't even his. "Thelonious was arrested multiple times," Kelley says. He was broke most of his life, and for years he couldn't play in New York City because the police revoked his cabaret card - a musician's license - after he was arrested. If I did I, would be bitter."Īnd Monk had a lot to be bitter about. There's so many things to do that I even didn't feel it. "You know, like, there's always something to occupy your mind, something to occupy your time. "It was so much happening," he said in 1964 to radio host David Kidd. But Monk remained relatively obscure - though he never let that get to him. These small groups all played Monk's compositions and some of them, like Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, even became famous. Monk was there at the birth of bebop in the early 1940s, when the emphasis in jazz shifted from big bands to virtuosic small groups.
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