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• His name, even, is part of the marketing scheme, I mean, Thelonious Sphere Monk - how can you think of a better…
• What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.
• Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name.
• The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational.…
• Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing.
• I can imagine an utter hatred for the jazz avant-garde.
• I like people not being able to be pigeon-holed.
• People come from a certain generation and a certain whole way of looking at things, and you really do become a prisoner…

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