Monk's death brought up complications on the film's production, however, as the absence of a will and the fact that New York did not recognize common law marriages led to a lengthy process before Monk's children could become the executors of the estate. Blackwood filmed the funeral while Zwerin and Ricker planned to make a deal with the Monk estate. While they originally planned to enlist Monk for the film, he was not well enough to approach and his failing health led to his eventual death of a stroke on February 17, 1982. Ricker brought in Charlotte Zwerin to help with the production of the film, which led to four producers Ricker, Zwerin, and the Blackwood brothers. After Ricker saw the footage, calling them "the Dead Sea Scrolls of jazz", he suggested that they use the footage as the focus of a new documentary. The grader welcomes communication from students if they feel that a grade is unfair Professor Williams will make the final decision in such cases.After meeting on the streets of New York, director and cinematographer Christian Blackwood mentioned to film producer Bruce Ricker that he and his brother had done some work on jazz, referring to a one-hour film special on Thelonious Monk that only aired once in Germany. The grading assistant tries to make very effort to take into allowance difficulties with the English language if English is NOT your native language, please inform Professor Williams so that the grader can be aware of it. This is a college-level course, and you are expected to be able to communicate professionally. Please try to avoid using slang or colloquial expressions (LOL, amazing, awesome, etc.) unless they are required within the context of the assignment (i.e., “Charlie Parker was often wasted on heroin”). Your thought processes and the construction of the paper should be logical, and your spelling, grammar, punctuation and syntax must be correct. But even though this is a Jazz History course, you will also be graded on your grammar and writing skills. Several previous students have written wonderful papers dealing with the sociological and psychological issues that these musicians have endured, but received grades lower than they expected because they did not place such discussion within the context of the history of jazz. Some of the assignments’ parameters call for you to comment on things that aren’t exactly jazz-related (Billie Holiday or Charlie Parker’s drug use, racism in society, etc.), but you must still put this in the context of JAZZ HISTORY when talking about racism’s effect on Monk’s life and career, for example, it would be good for you to mention the specific incidents or circumstances. You are, of course, expected to address the assignment correctly in terms of the factual material and your understanding of it (that is, if dates are cited they must be correct, etc.).
What’s important is an honest, cogent, concise response/discussion of what in the film resonated with you. Or, anything else you might feel relevant. Why is he important in the continuum of Jazz History? What of societal practices/attitudes at the time and their affect on him?Ĩ. What is it about his compositions that makes him such an important figure in this art form?ħ. What of those in the film that were close to him and commented?Ħ. Do you think his emerging mental illness was part of his creative process?ĥ. Does he remind you of some modern day tragic figure?Ĥ. Compare him to your own musical likes/dislikes.ģ. How did his personal style and stage presence distinguish him from other artists we have observed?Ģ. (i.e., right here in Blackboard, or as an imported Word document)Ĭonsider touching upon the following points:ġ. Write 1- 2 pages, vertical page format, double-spaced, submitted in a way that the grader can make comments, etc. Based on Thelonious Monk: “Straight No Chaser” Documentary:
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