Thelonious Monk Trailers
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Most Popular Thelonious Monk Trailers
Total trailers found: 16
Heads Trailer (1969)
19 December 1969
Includes 'portraits' of Marianne Faithfull, Thelonious Monk and 28 others, some known, some less so.
Jazz on a Summer's Day Trailer (1960)
28 March 1960
Set at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, this documentary mixes images of water and the town with performers and audience.
Monk Trailer (1968)
01 January 1968
Part one of a two-part portrait of the great Jazz composer and pianist. In 1968, we had the opportunity to spend time with Thelonious Monk and his musicians, following him in New York and Atlanta.
Thelonious Monk: Paris 1969 Trailer (2013)
01 January 2013
Live archive release from the Jazz legend. Thelonious Monk Paris 1969 is a fascinating and important late-career document of the legendary Jazz pianist and composer in performance with his Quartet at the Salle Pleyel concert hall in Paris, France on December 15, 1969.
Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes Trailer (2019)
14 June 2019
Explore the vision behind the iconic American jazz record label. Since 1939, Blue Note artists have been encouraged to push creative boundaries in search of uncompromising expressions.
Monk in Europe Trailer (1968)
01 January 1968
Part two of a two-part portrait of the great Jazz composer and pianist. On his European tour his quartet was joined by Ray Copeland, Clark Terry, Phil Woods, and Johnny Griffin.
Jazz Icons: Thelonious Monk Live in '66 Trailer (2006)
26 September 2006
Thelonious Monk features two intimate concerts filmed three days apart in Scandanavia in the Spring of 1966 with a legendary quartet that includes drummer Ben Riley, bassist Larry Gales and tenor saxophonist Charlie Rouse.
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool Trailer (2019)
23 August 2019
An immersive look at the eventful life and brilliant artistic career of visionary American jazz trumpeter Miles Davis (1926-1991).
Public Speaking Trailer (2011)
23 February 2011
Martin Scorsese’s portrait of writer and social commentator Fran Lebowitz, celebrated for her sharp wit and observations on modern life.
Piano Blues Trailer (2003)
04 October 2003
Director — and piano player — Clint Eastwood explores his life-long passion for piano blues, using a treasure trove of rare historical footage in addition to interviews and performances by such living legends as Pinetop Perkins and Jay McShann, as well as Dave Brubeck and Marcia Ball.
Monk & Pannonica: An American Story Trailer (2022)
24 April 2022
Paris, 1954. The story of the meeting, known thanks to the fortuitous discovery of a forgotten notebook, full of notes and photographs, between a white British aristocrat, Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter, writer and jazz patron, and a talented black pianist, Thelonious Monk, one of the best bebop jazz musicians of all time; a prodigious union of wills that overcame the most extreme prejudices of the very conservative US society.
Thelonious Monk Quartet at Salle Pleyel, Paris, 1969 Trailer (2012)
27 March 2012
Thelonious Monk entered a long phase of introspection and cancelled his concert schedule after 1968. He disbanded his quartet with Charlie Rouse, stopped recording for a while, and only performed sporadically.
Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser Trailer (1988)
25 October 1988
A documentary film about the life of pianist and jazz great Thelonious Monk. Features live performances by Monk and his band, and interviews with friends and family about the offbeat genius.
Dangerous Love Affairs Trailer (1959)
09 September 1959
Juliette Merteuil and Valmont is a sophisticated couple, always looking for fun and excitement. Both have sexual affairs with others and share their experiences with one another.
It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story Trailer (2018)
02 July 2018
A documentary about the legendary jazz label Blue Note Records and its German founders Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff.
Rewind & Play Trailer (2023)
11 January 2023
The lack of respect with which the Black musician Thelonious Monk was treated in Autumn, 1969. At the end of his European tour, legendary jazz musician Thelonious Monk appears on an interview show in Paris for French state television.
