Thelonious Monk: Monk on Monk
Val Wilmer, DownBeat, 3 June 1965
NOW IT'S Monk's time. Times have been bad for the eccentric genius and the work all but nonexistent. But he's famous now. He appears in the slicks; he wears $150 suits and stays at the best hotels. But as his wife, Nellie, says, "He's no more impressed with himself than he was in the dark days."
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