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lonelysandwich: mrgan: Thelonius Monk’s advice to saxophonist Steve Lacy (1960) Every one of Monk’s notes in here may as well be gospel, but one that stood out for me: “A genius is the one most like himself.” Great jazz, like anything great, comes from serious self-awareness.

lonelysandwich:

mrgan:

Thelonius Monk’s advice to saxophonist Steve Lacy (1960)

Every one of Monk’s notes in here may as well be gospel, but one that stood out for me:

“A genius is the one most like himself.”

Great jazz, like anything great, comes from serious self-awareness.

Reblogged 2 years ago from lonelysandwich (originally from mrgan)
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    anyone else want to click when the underlined words?
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    himself. Can you identify a genius given only their scrawlings?
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    advice to saxophonist Steve Lacy (1960). See his full handprinted
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    So many amazing nuggets of pure genius in two pages. This is surely a complete manifesto on playing music and probably...
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    This was my background for a while because it’s such a wonderful fucking artifact, and reading it would genuinely perk...
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    Great jazz, like anything great, comes from serious self-awareness.
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    “What you don’t play can be more important”- Thelonius Monk to saxophonist Steve Lacy (1960).