Thelonius Monk - Green Chimneys

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Uploaded by on Oct 18, 2010

Album: Underground, 1968
Musicians:
Thelonius Monk: Piano
Larry Gales: bass
Charlie Rouse: tenor sax
Ben Riley: drums

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  • Forget all that and just picture rows of copper-green chimneys on rooftops in Paris. From a higher window.

  • @UmbrellaGirl64 Maybe this was his way of dealing with it....cheers

  • I am sad to say that it is still in business. I read about these two rapists and murderers who were there in the 70s. I read about a Philip Zagarella and an Eric Napoletano who were at Green Chimneys. That environment is the kind of breeding grounds for people like Philip Zagarella and Eric Napoletano.

  • @UmbrellaGirl64 Is it still in operation and if, not, what brought it to an end?

  • @UmbrellaGirl64: I'm sorry to learn that you and others were abused there. When Thelonious and Nellie sent their daughter there in the '60s it was a prestigious prep school. I believe their daughter, Barbara, had pleasant memories of the place, which arguably was a very different place from the time when you were there.

  • @aarfeld

    You don't ATTEND Green Chimneys. You just try to survive due to the high level of abuse.

  • Green Chimneys is an RTC in Brewster NY where many have been abused. Monks' daughter Barbara went there in the 1960s, but I didn' tknow her. She was long before me. Kids were being abused big time there and when I was there sometimes kids were sent to Emergency after they'd been beaten. Dislocated shoulders and things like that. I was once beaten by two staff members. Every day I was beaten and so were many others. Damn shame the Monkman would honor a disgraceful place like Green Chimneys

  • @aarfeld thank you for this lovely piece of Monk trivia. I always wondered about the strange title.....

  • simply beautiful

  • Written for his young daughter, Barbara (Boo Boo), in celebration of the boarding school she attended: Green Chimneys, (in New Hampshire, I think).

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