Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser

00:02:01 "Thelonious, Thelonious...

00:03:48 ...and Dizzy Gillespie, Monk joined the revolution.

00:11:39 ...a Black uprising in a sense, was in music...

00:14:11 He said, "Next time he plays, I'm going to look at him."

00:15:58 ...as long as the crowds were coming in. And we did that.

00:18:30 That was a good year.

00:19:50 I write down four bars or something.

00:22:17 One or two, however you feel.

00:25:11 I don't think he taped that one, though.

00:28:23 It was just Thelonious Monk, Barry Farrell, and myself, in this dark Radio City office.

00:30:46 ...like I say, pace for four days. Something like that.

00:36:10 But my mother clearly...

00:41:21 And before we could figure out what to do musically...

00:44:32 I don't know. I really don't know.

00:46:37 Going slowly but surely.

00:53:14 Empty Coke bottles. They paid overweight.

00:57:45 Chicken liver.

01:00:50 Do you think the piano has enough keys? 88? Or do you want more or less?

01:06:37 I don't never carry no pen with me...

01:09:13 The royal family came to your...

01:10:43 I flew to Paris and got there just in time...

01:12:19 I would like to play a little tune I just composed...

01:15:51 The next half of the bar is...

01:17:50 Sure, he does something like that. He does something like...