{"id":3221,"date":"2012-10-12T11:10:49","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T16:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ragtagfilm.com\/blog\/?p=3221"},"modified":"2012-10-12T11:10:49","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T16:10:49","slug":"thelonious-monk-straight-no-chaser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/thelonious-monk-straight-no-chaser\/","title":{"rendered":"Thelonious Monk: Straight No Chaser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All right, jazz fans, we've got a special night for you this coming Monday, October 15. The<strong> We Always Swing Jazz Series <\/strong>presents\u00a0the 1988 documentary Thelonious Monk with film introduction from special guest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monkbook.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robin D.G. Kelley<\/a>, author of Thelonious Monk: The Life And Times of an American Original.<\/p>\n<p>Advance tickets are available at the We Always Swing box office, 21 N. Tenth Street. Box Office hours are Monday to Friday, 9am to 5:30pm.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3225\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ragtagcinema.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/monkT.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/monkT.jpg 624w, https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/monkT-293x300.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/artrageousfridays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Jazz-Series-web-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chick Corea on Robin Kelley's book:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRobin Kelley\u2019s new biography <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0684831902?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thekintespacec00&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0684831902\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Thelonious Monk: The Life And Times of an American Original<\/em><\/a> is a breath of fresh air among the biographies of our legendary jazz musicians. This book is thorough, detailed and written with a true affinity for Monk\u2019s humaneness and creative musical output. It fills in the missing pieces about the growth of the jazz scene in New York through the \u201940s, \u201950s and \u201960s, detailing each step of TSM\u2019s development \u2013 who passed through his bands, what gigs he played and what happened on those scenes. It\u2019s an invaluable and close look at the center of the world\u2019s most important creative musical developments in these decades: New York City.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Chick Corea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All right, jazz fans, we've got a special night for you this coming Monday, October 15. The We Always Swing Jazz Series presents\u00a0the 1988 documentary Thelonious Monk with film introduction from special guest Robin D.G. Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk: The Life And Times of an American Original. Advance tickets are available at the We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-news3"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}