Thelonious Monk - Blue Monk 1957 Thelonious Monk (p), Ahmed Abdul Malik (b), Osie Johnson (dr) The Sound of Jazz - December 8, 1957. Live from CBS Studio 58, the Town Theater at 851 Ninth Avenue in New York City. Blue color mixing by Jazz Improvisers | Jazz Improvisers

It's Monk's 102nd birthday! "At this time the fashion is to bring something to jazz that I reject. They speak of freedom. But one has no right, under pretext of freeing yourself, to be illogical and incoherent by getting rid of structure and simply piling a lot of notes one on top of the other. There’s no beat anymore. You can’t keep time with your foot. There’s a new idea that consists in destroying everything and find what’s shocking and unexpected; whereas jazz must first of all tell a story