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JOHN WILCOCK: Thelonious Monk's Heroin Arrest

Ethan Persoff and Scott Marshall at 5:00 am Fri, Feb 1, 2013

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Supplemental material:

1) COUNTERPUNCH on "Out Walked Monk" by Jeffrey St. Clair

2) JAZZ TIMES on "The Cabaret Card and Jazz"

3) NPR on "Unearthing Unknown Monk, Coltrane Recording" (Audio discussing the Five Spot performances at 4 minutes)

From an ongoing interview and biography of John Wilcock, a prolific editor and publisher of 1960's underground newspapers.

Ethan Persoff (Twitter) is an archivist, sound artist and cartoonist. He maintains a website of odd documents, including "Comics with Problems" and an entire archive of Paul Krassner's The Realist. He resides in Austin TX.

Scott Marshall (Facebook) is an illustrator, sound artist, and art director, based in New York City. Previous projects include audio work for Woody Allen (Small Time Crooks), and the score for a full-length dance piece by choreographer Lar Lubovitch (Men's Stories).

For more information on this project, visit: John Wilcock, New York Years (1954-1971).

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  • Roose_Bolton

    Said it before, saying it again: these are great. Just wish they were a dozen panels longer! And that I had access to a million of them! RIGHT THIS SECOND!

  • noggin

    Enjoyed all that–especially the recently found recording of Monk and Coltrane at Carnegie Hall.

  • s2redux

    Now that I’m staring 60 square in the face, there are days when I think, “Damn; too old.” And then I’ll listen to the crowd and the music on Discovery–Live at the Five Spot and think, “Damn; not old enough.”

  • chadmulligan

    Listening to Thelonious Monk is the closest anyone gets to hearing an alien tongue–his melodies are gorgeous and beyond our comprehension, but his music holds an internal logic that always seems just out of your reach.

  • Sasha K-S

    He might have been innocent of the heroin possession charge, but he WAS guilty of driving a nice car while black. That’s a serious charge, right there.