Tag: Thelonious
Alain Gomis gives back his voice to Thelonious Monk
Rewind and play, literally “Rewind and play”, is the new film by Alain Gomis. It is a documentary that reassembles the rushes, the unused images, of a program shot in…
Cinema: Thelonious Monk, “eccentric genius” in spite of himself
After Félicité, her beautiful portrait of a courageous mother in Kinshasa, the Franco-Senegalese director Alain Gomis returns with a documentary which will be released in theaters this Wednesday in France.…
Thelonious Monk, 40 years later…
The pianist Thelonious Monk drew the contours of an art whose rites and codes he appropriated with originality and singularity. Abused, criticized, his expressiveness had taken aback and continues to…