October 10th, 2017, marks the 100th birthday of the great jazz composer and pianist, Thelonious Monk. Duke Performances is celebrating with a number of performances from October 17th to October 24th at Durham Fruit & Produce Company, a 15,000 square foot warehouse space for the arts at 305 South Dillard Street in downtown Durham.
You can see all of the events here. Most of the performances are $25 for the public and $10 for Duke students.
Some of the events are free, and these are listed below.
Jam Sessions on Monk
Wednesday, October 18th, 10:30 p.m.
Saturday, October 21st, 10:30 p.m.
As part of Duke Performances’ 10-day celebration of the music and legacy of Thelonious Monk, pianist and co-curator Ethan Iverson will host a pair of late-night jam sessions at Durham Fruit & Produce beginning at 10:30PM. Local musicians and students are encouraged to attend and participate.
Free
Monk Songbook with Chris Pattishall, Ernest Turner, Jeb Patton, Ethan Iverson & Orrin Evans
Saturday, October 21st, 1 p.m.
Sunday, October 22nd, 1 p.m.
Thelonious Monk contributed countless standards to the jazz canon. In a remarkable exposition of Monk’s enduring genius, five top pianists will take turns playing sixty-one of Monk’s compositions during free afternoon marathons. The players include jazz authority and MONK@100 co-curator Ethan Iverson; Duke alum Jeb Patton, who worked with Monk collaborator Paul Jeffrey in the Duke Jazz Ensemble; Durham-raised pianist Chris Pattishall, named one of the top five jazz musicians under thirty by Wynton Marsalis; adventurous dynamo Orrin Evans, a Pew fellow and student of the great Kenny Barron; and North Carolina native Ernest Turner, a former faculty member at East Carolina University and a collaborator with some of the greatest names in jazz.
Free
