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Music
Santoro, Gene | April 11, 1994 issue

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This article focuses on the film "Straight No Chaser," one of the most compelling, poignant and informative films ever made about jazz musician Thelonious Sphere Monk. Over the past few years, Monk has come increasingly into his own again, as reissues of his music have come tumbling out. His reputation as a composer has grown, and more and more jazzers have scrambled to record versions of his classic tunes. Monk's sense of rhythm was like no one else's, in his writing or his execution. Listening to Monk's music is like having the notion of entropy in the universe enacted in sound.

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STRAIGHT No Chaser (Film); MONK, Thelonious; JAZZ musicians; MOTION pictures; MUSIC; ARTS
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