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IT’S NOT NICE

July 14, 2023 - Eve Marko

Jul 25, 2023
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“It’s no secret, is it?” asks Thelonious Monk.

“No, but it’s not nice.”

That was the subtitle of the documentary, Rewind & Play: Not Nice, on the jazz pianist Thelonious Monk, which I saw in the early evening yesterday. It was made by the Senegalese director Alain Gomis out of raw footage he found that had been used to produce a 30-minute French film trib…

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