They were among his early musical influences, as were Thelonious Monk and Art Tatum.
In New York in the late 1950s, he worked most notably with Thelonious Monk.
Sonny learned melody and harmony from Thelonious Monk, and Miles Davis was a regular playing partner.
These institutional presences didn't exist when the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz was founded 26 years ago.
S. Monk, Thelonious Monk's son, filled stage changeovers with stories of his beginnings as a drummer, alongside his father.
Benjamin Williams is the 2009 winner of the Thelonious Monk Institute bass competition.
Vayenas is a graduate of the Thelonious Monk Institute for Jazz, the highly acclaimed finishing school for young improvising musicians.
In the 1950s, Dave Brubeck was jazz's resident intellectual (Thelonious Monk the eccentric, Charles Mingus the rebel, Miles Davis the movie star).
Later, Barron co-founded the quartet Sphere, dedicated to Thelonious Monk's music.
But it was on Manhattan's 52nd Street that Roach started experimenting with harmony and melody alongside Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker.
Influential US jazz trumpeter Donald Byrd, who performed alongside the likes of Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk and Herbie Hancock, has died aged 80.
He soon became one of the most in-demand trumpeters on the New York scene, playing with Max Roach, Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane and Thelonious Monk.
Within five years, he found himself cutting records with jazz greats such as Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk, in addition to recording his own material as a bandleader.
Claudia Acuna grew up in Chile a singer of many stripes, and was especially transfixed by the improvisation of musicians like Erroll Garner and Thelonious Monk.
Mr Mehldau is steeped in the classical repertoire of jazz, and he reveals new colours and complexities in works by that genius Thelonious Monk, George Gershwin and even Radiohead, a pop group.
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