Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser

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

“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.”

“Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser. I didn't even realize this was on Criterion, so I'm very stoked about this. This movie's great, an incredible intimate portrait of Thelonious Monk. Fly-on-the-wall revealing of one of the great artists in jazz. The footage is gorgeous. And if you want to get into jazz, or even if you don't care about jazz, that's the beautiful thing about documentaries, right? You just immediately dive into a world that's not your own.”