Sounds of Thelonious

Monk at Minton's

El/2010

Thelonius Sphere

You shattered preconceptions

of what sound is for

With your power, precision 

clean harmonies, tight rhythms

You woke me up with your jazz 

like shards of glass falling through the sun

Don't let me slip back into complacency

Your music is life stripped clean

of attachment to anything

It is pure Being

entirely without prejudice

Thelonious Sphere...El, 2010