Is there anyone cooler than Thelonious Monk?

[progmom]

Monk's the man.

[benburch]

1. Depends...

But he's certainly way up there in cool.

[progmom]

5. Depends on what?

Your definition of cool?

Whether he was wearing a goofy hat?

[tigereye]

10. Monk was way cool

not sure he is cooler than other jazz musicians, i.e., Coltrane, Ellington, Dizzy, Mingus, Sarah Vaughn, etc. But he certainly had a unique way of expressing his genius! He just always looked cool, too.

[Richardo]

12. Well it *is* a coolie hat!

<ducks>

[bloom]

2. no...eom

[immoderate]

3. In a zone all alone.

BTW, keep on the lookout for a recently released double CD with all of Monk's unaccompanied tracks done for Columbia.

--IMM

[salvorhardin]

4. Well...

I don't know. Bob Dorough is pretty cool.


And Dave Frishberg is hip. He even wrote a song about it. :-)

[progmom]

8. Damn, you're hip.

I am one of the world's biggest Bob Dorough fans. He could be the coolest guy I have in my rolodex.

[Chandler Stork]

6. Chet Baker and Charles Mingus are contenders.

On edit: Artie Shaw, also very cool.

[StopTheMorans]

7. Britney Spears!

*ducks*

[progmom]

15. Why I oughta!

[StopTheMorans]

18. yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees?

:evilgrin: :spank:

[Hand]

17. Why, you...

That's it! Yer getting tombstoned!!!!

:grr:

[StopTheMorans]

19. are you Skinner?

if not, then :P

[Hand]

20. Pfui...

I decline to prolong what is plainly degenerating into an infantile pissing contest,

Mister Poopy Pants!

[Ron Green]

9. Lester Young was pretty high up on the hipness scale, too.

Most musicians that he worked with acknowledged Prez as the coolest.

[bif]

11. No. Trane is/was.

[Shakespeare]

13. Mingus was pretty damn cool.

And was one righteously pissed-off man, too. Love both of 'em.

[Gothic Sponge]

14. Cab Calloway

I'm more a fan of early jazz.

[corksean]

16. He's way better than Felonious Bush

[trof]

21. The Fonz?

I just thought...
AAYYYY!

[Hand]

25. No. nt

[Zomby Woof]

22. Not very many

Miles is one of the few right up there with him in pure absolute cool terms.

[Forkboy]

23. Yes...but not within the Jazz field

[bobthedrummer]

24. Rhasaan Roland Kirk was way cool. So was Bird.