In the early to mid 1940s, Monk was the house pianist at Minton's Playhouse, a Manhattan nightclub.

Much of Monk's style was developed during his time at Minton's, when he participated in after-hours " cutting competitions " which featured many leading jazz soloists of the time.

The Minton's scene was crucial in the formulation of bebop and it brought Monk into close contact with other leading exponents of the emerging idiom, including Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Christian, Kenny Clarke, Charlie Parker and later, Miles Davis.

Thelonious Monk had some involvement there, but by the time that he and Powell met ( around 1942 ) the elder pianist / composer was able to introduce Powell to the circle of bebop musicians which was starting to form at Minton's Playhouse.

Minton's campaign was denounced by his political opponents, and he received more widespread criticism for an address that became known as the " You Cannot Eat the Constitution " speech.

Minton's paternal grandfather, Jonathan Minton, was killed during the American Civil War and his father grew up on his own.

Taft remarked that Minton's post-graduate thesis was among the best he had ever read.

The first of Minton's three children, Sherman Jr., was born while he was away.

Minton's initial campaign slogan was " You can't offer a hungry man the Constitution ", a slogan he unveiled in a debate with Robinson in Corydon on August 11.

Willis claimed that much of the legislation was unconstitutional and Minton's positions were detrimental to the nation.

Radcliff attributed Minton's conservative position to the distaste he developed for the courts when they overturned legislation passed while he was in the Senate.

One of Minton's favorite cases was that of Modernistic Candies, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission.

Minton's central judicial philosophy was to ascertain and uphold the original intent of legislation.

Truman's other appointees to the Court provided consistent conservative votes, and during Minton's first years on the Court it was returned to the conservatism of the William Howard Taft era.

During the early 1940s, he was a well-respected regular at the famous jam sessions held at Minton's Playhouse.

Although musicians from all schools performed there, after Minton's Playhouse in uptown Harlem, 52nd Street was the second most important place for the dissemination of bebop ;.

His first known work was with the Royal Barons in 1937, but he did not find performing at Minton's Playhouse a few years later a very happy experience.

Although Christian was in his early twenties in 1941, his time at Minton's was significant, but brief ; he would die the next March after being confined to a sanatorium stricken with tuberculosis.

Alongside the Great Depression, many musicians from poor, rural Southern states like Louisiana moved to the north, especially New York City and Chicago, Louis Armstrong was among them, and he helped make Chicago the center for musical innovation in the country before moving on to New York, where clubs like Cotton Club, Village Vanguard and Minton's were flourishing.

Some of his opinions won praise ; the editors of Tax Magazine commented favorably on Minton's opinions on tax law, calling them " direct Hoosier logic ".

Finally locating his idol, Davis became one of the cadre of musicians who held nightly jam sessions at two of Harlem's nightclubs, Minton's Playhouse and Monroe's.

Major had been on the court for several years and held a judicial philosophy similar to Minton's.

The Washington Post raised questions about Minton's ability to be confirmed by the Senate due to the power many of his foes held in the body.

Thelonious Monk at Minton's Playhouse, New York City, 1947

* Midnight at Minton's ( c. 1941, issued 1973 under Don Byas ' name.

In 1941 at Minton's Playhouse he played with Charlie Christian, Thelonious Monk and Kenny Clarke in after hours sessions.

* Midnight at Minton's ( 1941 )

* Dan Morgenstern, liner notes in: Midnight at Minton's, High Note HCD 7044 ( 1999 )

Minton's placement at the top of his class entitled him to serve as librarian at the legal college.

The alto saxophonist Sweet Papa Lou Donaldson recalled seeing Parker get burned by Bostic during one such jam session at Minton's.

As the house drummer at Minton's Playhouse in the early 1940s, he participated in the after hours jams that led to the birth of Be-Bop, which in turn led to modern jazz.

Clarke himself claimed that these stylistic elements were already in place by the time he put together the famous house band at Minton's Playhouse, which hosted Monk, Parker, Gillespie, Russell, saxophonist Don Byas and many others while serving as the incubator of the emerging small group sound.

While playing at Minton's, Clarke made many recordings, most notably as the house drummer for Savoy Records.

* 1961 Up at " Minton's "

Page was known as " Mr. After Hours " to his many friends for his ability to take on all comers in late night jam sessions, and he was recorded at Harlem's Minton's Playhouse in 1941 playing a kind of proto-bebop style then in vogue.

" Minton's early penchant for dark colour schemes can be seen in his 1939 " Landscape at Les Baux ", in the Tate Gallery.

One of the most famous was the regular after-hours jam at Minton's Playhouse in New York City that ran in the 1940s and early 1950s.

The jam sessions at Minton's were a fertile meeting place and proving ground for both established soloists like Ben Webster and Lester Young, and the younger jazz musicians who would soon become leading exponents of the bebop movement, including Thelonious Monk ( Minton's house pianist ), Charlie Parker, and Dizzy Gillespie.

Despite Minton's heavy campaigning, he lost the close election to Willis by 5, 179 votes out of over 1. 5 million cast.

Minton's appearance in this period is shown in a 1952 portrait by Lucian Freud, as well as in self-portraits.

There were also controversies surrounding the ' banning ' by his superiors, against Sutton's wishes, of two entries into the Play for Today strand, Dennis Potter's Brimstone and Treacle in 1976 and Roy Minton's Scum in 1978.