Today in Afro History ! Jazz Pianist Thelonious Monk passes away in 1982.

English: Thelonious Monk, Minton’s Playhouse, New York, ca. September 1947. Photograph by William P. Gottlieb (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Thelonious Monk and Howard McGhee at Minton’s Playhouise, ca. September 1947. Photography by William P. Gotlieb. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Thelonious Monk, Howard McGhee, Roy Eldridge, and Teddy Hill, Minton’s Playhouse, New York, N.Y., ca. Sept. 1947 (Photograph by William P. Gottlieb) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)