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By the age of 13, legendary jazz pianist Thelonious Monk, won the weekly amateur contest at the Apollo Theater so many times that he was eventually barred from entering.
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John Coltrane fell asleep on the set of a Thelonious Monk record due to his heroin addiction. You can hear Monk shout to him at 2:21 followed by a slightly delayed opening by Trane.
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Thelonious Monk, a renowned jazz pianist, spoke no more than two words to his crew on his final tour because his group members were "so ugly."
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Pulitzer Prizes exist for more than just journalism, and Thelonious Monk won one.
