"In 1981, film producer Bruce Ricker had a chance encounter with director and cinematographer Christian Blackwood on the streets of New York. Ricker had just released a documentary on Kansas City jazz, called The Last of the Blue Devils, and Blackwood told him that he too had done a little work on jazz. When Ricker went to see the footage, he was stunned. The reels, he would later say, were 'just sitting there like the Dead Sea Scrolls of jazz.' The 'scrolls' were an intimate look into the life and music of Thelonious Monk, the legendary bebop pianist and composer."
Open Culture - Thelonious Monk: Straight No Chaser, 1:29:22 (Video)
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