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   rightbrain-lefty:lonelysandwich:mrgan:

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   anyone else want to click when the underlined words?

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    himself. Can you identify a genius given only their scrawlings?

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    advice to saxophonist Steve Lacy (1960). See his full handprinted

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    So many amazing nuggets of pure genius in two pages. This is surely a complete manifesto on playing music and probably...

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    This was my background for a while because it’s such a wonderful fucking artifact, and reading it would genuinely perk...

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    Great jazz, like anything great, comes from serious self-awareness.

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    This blew me away. I think my faves are the first and last. “Just bc youre not a drummer, doesn’t mean you dont have to...

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    I love stuff like this. It makes me want...leave little profound notes to people that will...

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    “What you don’t play can be more important”- Thelonius Monk to saxophonist Steve Lacy (1960).

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    Thelonius Monk’s advice to saxophonist Steve Lacy (1960) Every word of this...What should...

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    This is fantastic. “A Genius is the one MOST LIKE HIMSELF”

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    “A genius is the one most like himself.” — T. Monk

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    Thelonius Monk’s advice to saxophonist Steve Lacy (1960) {ericalba{mrgan}}

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    Thelonius Monk’s advice to saxophonist Steve Lacy (1960)

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    just absolutley tremendous. i’m printing this out and kicking my ass with it every morning. wow.

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    I’m guessing the sax player was Charlie Rouse, but I could be wrong. Looks like it was

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    Jason G. for linking me up to this!

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     If only more singers today listened to

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     Thelonius Monk’s advice to saxophonist Steve Lacy (1960)

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     advice to saxophonist Steve Lacy (1960)

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     per gli dei! “keep the time, pat your foot, play the melody” che poi lo dicono tutti i veri jazzmen, perfino a me me...

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     Every one of Monk’s notes in here may as well be gospel, but one that stood out for me:

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     This is killer stuff. I have actually seen this before, also a few other documents like this. But all of it is sage.

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     In 40 years is there gonna be another one of these from….no, there will never be anything as cool.

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     A cheat sheet for artists of all sorts. My favorite imperatives: Discriminate: Don’t play everything. Let some things go...

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     notes in here may as well be gospel, but one that stood out for me: “A genius is the one most like himself.”

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