Ruby, My Dear

Monk's original compositions, marked by dissonances and rather angular twists of melody, became jazz standards.

They also had great titles: "Round Midnight," "Straight, No Chaser," "Ruby, My Dear," and "Well, You Needn't." Monk made the cover of Time magazine and is credited with being the second most-recorded jazz composer after Duke Ellington.

Monk's biographer, Robin D.G. Kelley, who spent 14 years researching Monk's life and music, said, "He was Janus-faced, looking backwards and forwards.

Monk pulled as much from his roots, the old-style stride piano traditions he never left, as from the really futuristic musical territory he was first to visit.

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This tune is Ruby, My Dear, and it's about Ruby Richardson, who was Monk's first love in his teenage years.

Annette Cohen with the Thelonious Monk tune, Trinkle, Trinkle.

Trinkle, Trinkle ? ? Thank you.