A Brush With Immortality: Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Dexter Gordon, and Jackie Mclean
Monk saw me as a young wide-eyed joke, and I was. I was 16 and on a roll (I had just seen John Coltrane a couple of weeks earlier). Monk asked me, "What you know about jazz, boy?" And I started telling him about all the urban legends that I'd heard about him. As he was listening intently to one of my stories he asked me, "Damn! What did I do then!!!?" You have to know how Monk
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