Birth Place: Rocky Mount, North Carolina, U.S.A.

Birth Name: Thelious Junior Monk

Member of:
Thelonious Monk & Sonny Rollins

Associated Acts:
John Coltrane

Also Called:
Thelonious Sphere Monk

Genres:
Jazz
Bebop

Instruments:
Piano

Education:
Stuyvesant High School

Did You Know: He died on February 17, 1982 in Weehawken, New Jersey, U.S.A.