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Make A Date: Jason Moran

John Lewis, Metro, May 2008

WHEN THE eccentric jazz legend Thelonious Monk died in 1982, Jason Moran was only seven years old. Aged 11, Moran was in his dad's car when he heard Monk playing the classic 'Round Midnight'.

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