Chapel Cinema Screening "Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser"
FPC Chapel Cinema Screening
"Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser"
on Wednesday, March 22, 2023 at 6 PM – 7:30 PM
A documentary film about the life of pianist and jazz great Thelonious Sphere Monk. Features live performances by Monk and his band. The footage of Monk in the documentary was more than 20 years old, shot for German TV by Christian Blackwood in 1967 and 1968, when the movie first appeared in 1988. Two decades passed before the by-now forgotten footage was mentioned by Blackwood to Bruce Ricker, whose "Last of the Blue Devils" (1980) was a landmark documentary about Kansas City jazz. Using the Blackwood footage of Monk as their foundation, Ricker and documentarian Charlotte Zwerin began tracking down the survivors who knew Monk best: his son; his tenor sax player, Charles Rouse; his manager; his road manager, and Baroness Nica de Koenigswarter, who appeared later in Monk's life. As Roger Ebert said, "They all seem to remember more or less the same man; there are not a lot of different versions of Monk in this movie. He was, they agree, a musical genius, and of course history has proven them right." Come to see how the music was created. Stay to learn more about the man who created it.
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