Carla Bley on Thelonious Monk

“I thought he [Theloniuous Monk] should run everything, be named king of the world or something. Everything he did or said, the way he moved, the way he played, was perfect. He didn’t ever make any mistakes. That’s so weird. I never heard him like grumble, and stop playing or anything, which is something I do all the time. I thought he was another person in the galaxy of great jazz people. And I understood him from note one.” 

From “Interview with Carla Bley” by Ethan Iverson on Do the Math; Image from Past Daily  

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