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Transcript: Jazz Musicians Compete At Thelonius Monk Competition
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- NPR All Things Considered
- Article date:
- November 20, 1995
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Each year competition features a different instrument. Past winners
have included pianist Marcus Roberts and saxophonist Joshua Redman.
This year guitarists and bass players are competing.
ROBERT SIEGEL, Host: It's All Things Considered. I'm Robert Siegel.
LINDA WERTHEIMER, Host: And I'm Linda Wertheimer.
Tonight at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. the Thelonius Monk
Institute of Jazz is selecting the winners of its ninth annual competition.
In previous years the event helped propel the careers of pianist
Marcus Roberts [sp] and Jackie Terrason [sp], and it was partly responsible
for the meteoric rise of saxophonist Joshua Redman. On the ...