Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Thelonious Monk, straight no chaser [videorecording] / Warner Bros. Inc. ; director, Charlotte Zwerin ; producers, Charlotte Zwerin, Bruce Ricker ; executive producer, Clint Eastwood.

Edition:

Standard version.

Publisher, Date:

Burbank, Calif. : Warner Home Video, [2001]

Description:

1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

A wide-ranging documentary that aims to put Monk's status into context and perspective. It blends the history of Monk's early career in Harlem with archival black-and-white footage of the pianist performing his own compositions for Norwegian and French TV.

Target Audience Note:

Rated PG-13.

Subjects:

Monk, Thelonious.

Jazz.

Piano music (Jazz)

Documentary films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Monk, Thelonious.

Zwerin, Charlotte.

Ricker, Bruce, 1942-2011.

Eastwood, Clint, 1930-

Warner Bros.

Warner Home Video (Firm)

Other Title:

Straight no chaser.

Notes:

Videodisc release of the 1988 film by Warner Bros. Inc.

Thelonious Monk.

DVD ; mono.

Closed-captioned. Subtitles in English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish.

Contents:

Evidence -- Rhythm-a-ning -- On the bean -- 'Round midnight -- Well, you needn't -- Bright Mississippi -- Blue monk -- Trinkle tinkle -- Rhythm-a-ning -- Ugly beauty -- Ask me now -- Just a gigolo -- Crepuscule with Nellie -- I should care -- We see -- Osaka T. -- Evidence -- Epistrophy -- Don't blame me -- Ruby, my dear -- I mean you -- Lulu's back in town -- Off minor -- Pannonica -- Boo Boo's birthday -- Misterioso -- Monk's mood -- Sweetheart of all my dreams -- 'Round Midnight.

ISBN:

0790752980

9780790752983

Publisher Number:

11896

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

205984

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD 781.65 Monk

Medium:

[videorecording]