Thelonious Monk Sculpteur de silence

“When I met Monk’s music at 20, it was a shock, a bomb, a tornado. Monk touches me: I listen to him and I cry, I see him and I melt.

 Éric D'Agostino gives the floor, for the first time, to the star revered today by all jazzmen: Thelonious Monk, the pianist who never spoke, the one who took refuge in the silences of his music. The show tells the difficulties for an  extraordinary artist to live in a world hostile to madness and difference. This imaginary word of Monk dialogue with his music, his buffoonish, whimsical, twisted, teasing compositions... All rearranged by a quartet of enthusiasts of the artist and directed by Guy Theunissen!

“(...) I write my own path and my path is curved, I twirl, I circumvtualise, I dance and I laugh but I laugh, I anguish and take refuge between the white and black keys of my keyboard. Monk bipolar, cracked, crazy? It’s me. My name is Monk, Thelonious Monk... I am a bar pianist and if I hadn’t encountered jazz, I would have become a bum.