[Jazz & Song] Monk, Thelonious Sphere. (1917 - 1982) Signed PortraitBold autograph signature on his TIME magazine cover portrait from the influential American jazz pianist, composer and arranger who had a highly unique improvisational style and who made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "Epistrophy", "'Round Midnight", "Blue Monk", "Straight, No Chaser" and "Well, You Needn't." Considered one of the most important, and eccentric, figures in modern jazz, he spent most of his life in New