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Pocket Rockers was a brand of personal stereo produced by Fisher-Price in the late 1980s, aimed at elementary school-age children. [1] They played a proprietary variety of miniature cassette (appearing to be a smaller version of the 8-track tape) which was released only by Fisher-Price themselves.
Monk's Music is a jazz album by the Thelonious Monk Septet, which for this recording included Coleman Hawkins and John Coltrane. It was released in November 1957 through Riverside Records . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The recording was made in New York City on June 26, 1957.
She was a close friend for the rest of Monk's life: she "served as a surrogate wife right alongside Monk's equally devoted actual wife, Nellie" [19] and "paid Monk's bills, dragged him to an endless array of doctors, put him and his family up in her own home and, when necessary, helped Nellie institutionalize him. In 1958, Monk and the baroness ...
Meredith Monk and Bang on a Can All-Stars perform their 2020 album "Memory Game," reinterpreting Monk's groundbreaking work from the 1980s, at the Ford. Review: Meredith Monk's '80s post-nuclear ...
Wilbur Bernard Ware (September 8, 1923 – September 9, 1979) was an American jazz double bassist. [1] He was a regular bassist for the Riverside record label in the 1950s, and recorded regularly in that decade with Johnny Griffin, Kenny Dorham, Kenny Drew, and Thelonious Monk.
Disc 1, tracks 1–8: 21 and 27 July 1955, Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ – see Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington. Oscar Pettiford, bass; Kenny Clarke, drums; Disc 1, tracks 9–13; disc 2, tracks 1–2: 17 March and 3 April 1956, Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ – see The Unique Thelonious Monk. Oscar Pettiford, bass; Art ...
T. S. Monk's bandleader Thelonious Monk, Jr., served as arranger, drummer, and lead vocalist for the song. [4] It was co-written by Sandy Linzer, who produced its album House of Music. [5] The song's lyrics are about aspiring to a rich lifestyle. [1] Its chorus chants, "Give us the bon / give us the bon bon bon bon vie / give us the good life." [6]
The Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings is a 2006 release of Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane's work for the Riverside Records label in 1957, with two tracks previously unreleased. This collection is an almost complete anthology of the work of Monk and Coltrane, who only recorded together in the studio during 1957.