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20 minute excerpt from an interview with Rudy Van Gelder, from the DVD ‘Perfect Takes’.

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tornandfrayed: Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, and Gerald Wilson backstage at the Monterey Jazz Festival in 1963.
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souleyes: Thelonious Monk by Burt Glinn -  New York 1975
z7z: Thelonious Monk

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Sonny Rollins interview on PBS

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bainer: Harry Colomby, Thelonious Monk and Teo Macero enjoying a couple of beers and ham sandwiches between takes at a recording session, 30th Street Studios, NYC (photo by Doug Quackenbush)
bainer: Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk at the Airport Schiphol in Amsterdam, October 25 1972 (photo by Nellie Monk)
bainer: Thelonious Monk and Horace Silver, from the Sonny Rollins Volume Two session, Hackensack NJ, April 14 1957
spirtrepus: Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk Wallpaper. Created by Rhys Tranter. Original Design: Reid Miles. Photograph: Francis Wolff.
W Eugene Smith captures Thelonious Monk and his Town Hall band in rehearsal, 1959. Photograph courtesy of the W Eugene Smith archive at the Centre for Creative Photography, University of Arizona/Heirs of W Eugene Smith.