Nellie Smith

And I know a lot of his friends did not always come home, but he always came home.

It was all about to Google and Nelly and his mother and his religious, his spiritual anchoring.

Those are the things that were really important to him.

And so things like honesty and integrity, those things that are so important to most people in general, beyond their endeavors, beyond their status within society, that's what was really important to Thelonious.

We'll also look forward to Thelonious Monk III and the fourth generation of the Monk family coming.

and the responsibility of carrying this extraordinary musical and cultural legacy into the future.

And we have not forgotten Nellie Monk, the woman TS calls the support system behind Thelonious and whose story deserves to be heard.

There's more music too, this time from Thelonious Monk Live in Paris, Volume 2, soon to be released on the Rhythmining label.