Dbady

“Hawkins sought out the freshest, most original musicians, and had little patience for those who would quibble over the difference between “modern” or “progressive,” “swing” or “bebop.” “I don’t think about music as being new, or modern, or anything of the type,” he mused. “Music doesn’t go seasonable to me.”44”
― Robin D.G. Kelley, Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original

“You cannot have a non-political African American Studies course because its whole invention, its raison d’être came out of political struggle.”
― Robin D.G. Kelley

“how we proceed with repair depends on how we remember”
― Robin D. G. Kelley

“Thelonious Monk’s music is essentially about freedom.”
― Robin D.G. Kelley, Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original