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Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser

Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser

Charlotte Zwerin, 1988

Spine #1265

Picked by 2 guests

Documentary / Music

Criterion TMDB

Directed by Charlotte Zwerin

Cast Jimmy Cleveland, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Nellie Monk, Samuel E. Wright, Harry Colomby, Nica De Koenigswarter

Picked by

Tracy Letts

“And Thelonious Monk Straight, No Chaser. Great documentary. Amazing artist. Watch that.”

Tracy Letts
David Remnick

“I watch a lot of music movies. Thelonious Monk was one of the great composers and players during the bebop period, and Charlotte Zwerin’s film, Straight, No Chaser, captures his stage presence and his quirkiness and humanity like no other film I’ve ever seen. So Straight, No Chaser.”

David Remnick