1. Thelonious Monk, Sr., 1930s. Courtesy Thelonious Monk Estate.
2. Georgianna Batts and daughter Barbara, Rocky Mount, North Carolina, circa 1910. Courtesy Thelonious Monk Estate.
3. Left to right: Thomas, Marion, and Thelonious in New York City, circa 1922. Courtesy Thelonious Monk Estate.
4. Neighborhood children lined up outside the Columbus Hill Community Center on West 63rd Street, circa 1933–1934. Used courtesy of the
Children’s Aid Society.
5. A page from Monk’s tenth grade composition book for Mr. Marks’s English Class, 1933: “My Favorite Magazine.” Courtesy
Thelonious Monk Estate.
6. Barbara Monk’s city employee identification card. She was a cleaner for Children’s Court on East 22nd Street in Manhattan. Courtesy
Thelonious Monk Estate.
7. Thomas, Marion, and Thelonious, circa 1940–1942. Courtesy Thelonious Monk Estate.
8. With Rubie Richardson, Monk’s first serious love. Courtesy Thelonious Monk Estate.
9. Twenty-one-year-old Thelonious Monk holds his infant nephew Theolonious. The photo was taken early spring 1939. Courtesy Thelonious Monk
Estate.
10. Nellie Monk. Courtesy Thelonious Monk Estate.
11. Thomas Monk and his family at a neighborhood park outside Amsterdam Houses, circa 1948. Left to right: Theolonious, Charlotte, Thomas Monk,
Sr., Trotyrine, Marion (“Sissy”), and Thomas, Jr. Courtesy Thelonious Monk Estate.
12. Nellie’s sister Evelyn “Skippy” Smith. Courtesy Evelyn Smith and Benetta Smith-Bines.
13. Monk’s first-born, “Toot,” at the basketball court on West 63rd Street, circa 1953. Courtesy Thelonious Monk
Estate.
14. Nellie helps “Boo Boo” (Barbara) with her homework in their kitchen at the Phipps Houses. This photo was taken not long before their
second fire in 1961. Courtesy Thelonious Monk Estate.
15. Nellie’s brother and Monk’s best friend, James “Sonny” Smith, with his wife, Geraldine. Courtesy Geraldine
Smith.
16. Nellie and Thelonious’s nieces and nephews on the Smith side of the family. Top, left to right: Jackie Smith Bonneau, Pannonica
Val-Hackett, Gerald Pierre Smith, Benetta Smith-Bines, Judith Smith. Bottom left to right: James Riley Smith, Jr., Evelyn Smith, Clifton Bennett Smith. Courtesy Evelyn Smith and
Benetta Smith-Bines.
17. Thelonious with his nephew Ronnie Newkirk in the mid-1950s. Courtesy of Clifton Smith.
18. Monk at a Blue Note recording session, July 23, 1951. Photograph by Francis Wolff © Mosaic Images LLC. All Rights Reserved.
19. Idrees Sulieman (trumpet) and Monk at a Blue Note recording session, WOR Studios, October 15, 1947. Photograph by Francis Wolff © Mosaic
Images LLC. All Rights Reserved.
20. Monk jamming with Charles Mingus (bass), Roy Haynes (drums), and Charlie Parker (saxophone) at the Open Door in Greenwich Village, September 1953.
Photograph by Robert Parent. Courtesy Getty Images. All Rights Reserved.
21. Monk with an all-star band at Tony’s in Brooklyn, March 1954. Left to right: Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis (trumpet), Gigi Gryce
(saxophone), and Max Roach (drums). Not pictured: bassist Charles Mingus. Photograph by Jimmy Morton. Courtesy Jimmy Morton and Fred Brathwaite, Jr., from Fred Brathwaite, Sr.,
Archives. All Rights Reserved.
22. Monk’s band at Tony’s in Brooklyn, December 1953. Left to right: Thelonious Monk, Sam Gill (bass), Willie Jones (drums), and
Kenny Dorham (trumpet). Photograph by Jimmy Morton. Courtesy Jimmy Morton and Fred Brathwaite, Jr., from Fred Brathwaite, Sr., Archives. All Rights Reserved.
23. Charles Delaunay attends to Monk backstage at the Salle Pleyel, Paris, June 1954. Photograph by Marcel Fleiss. Used courtesy of Marcel Fleiss.
All Rights Reserved.
24. Monk and pianist Rene Urtreger, Paris, June 1954. Photograph by Marcel Fleiss. Used courtesy of Marcel Fleiss. All Rights Reserved.
25. Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter at the Village Vanguard. Photograph by Raymond Ross. © Raymond Ross Archives/CTSIMAGES.COM.
26. Monk performs at the Salle Pleyel for the Paris Jazz Festival (“Salon du Jazz”), June 1954. Photograph by Marcel Fleiss. Used
courtesy of Marcel Fleiss. All Rights Reserved.
27. Thelonious Monk with Sonny Rollins (tenor saxophone), Roy Haynes (drums), and Ahmed Abdul-Malik (bass), at the Five Spot Café, September 1958.
Photograph by Marvin Oppenberg. Music Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. All Rights Reserved.
28. Thelonious lounging with Nellie before his Royal Festival Hall Concert, London, April 29, 1961. Photograph by Erich Auerbach. Hulton
Archive/Getty Images. All Rights Reserved.
29. Hall Overton and Thelonious Monk look over a score during rehearsal at Eugene Smith and Overton’s loft on Sixth Avenue, November 1963. Frankie
Dunlop is at the drums and Butch Warren is on bass. Photograph by Ivan Black. Music Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. All
Rights Reserved.
30. Thelonious and his nephew Alonzo White on Monk’s first European tour, May 1961. Courtesy Alonzo White.
31. With host Reiko Hoshino during Monk’s first tour of Japan, May 1963. Ms. Hoshino owned and operated a jazz café in Kyoto. Courtesy
Thelonious Monk Estate.
32. Harry Colomby, Thelonious Monk, and Teo Macero enjoy a couple of beers and ham sandwiches between takes at a recording session, 30th Street Studios.
Photograph by Doug Quackenbush. Used by permission. Courtesy Olga Quackenbush. All Rights Reserved.
33. Monk backstage at the Village Gate, 1962. Photograph by Eddie Locke. Used by permission. All Rights Reserved.
34. Monk with Dizzy Gillespie, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, October 25, 1972. Photograph by Nellie Monk. Courtesy Thelonious Monk Estate.
35. Thelonious Monk, Jr., on drums, 1972. Photograph by Raymond Ross. © Raymond Ross Archives/CTSIMAGES.COM.
36. Charlie Rouse performing with Monk not long before he left the band, 1969. Photograph by Raymond Ross. © Raymond Ross
Archives/CTSIMAGES.COM.
37. Boo Boo Monk in rehearsal, circa 1978–1979. Courtesy Thelonious Monk Estate.
38. Monk at the 30th Street Studios for a Columbia recording session, 1964. Photograph by Doug Quackenbush. Used by permission. Courtesy Olga
Quackenbush. All Rights Reserved.