Sphere is an innovative saxophone player modelled on Ornette Coleman, though Sphere is also Thelonious Monk's middle name.

This name was not kept for long and in February 1233 the settlement was first mentioned as Munichberc ( Middle High German for " Monk's Hill ") in a charter by Pope Gregory IX.

Under the name Cecil Waye, Street produced four novels: The Figure of Eight ; The End of the Chase ; The Prime Minister's Pencil ; and Murder at Monk's Barn.

( Charleston is now open to visitors, as is Monk's House, the Rodmell cottage the Woolfs moved to in 1919, now owned by the National Trust.

* In the third book of the Brother Cadfael series, Monk's Hood, the herbalist Cadfael uses aconite as an ingredient in a liniment, which is later stolen and used to poison a victim.

There is Monk's Wall nature reserve and a bird observatory at Sandwich Bay, which provides a home for wild duck and other wildlife in a wetland habitat.

" Crepuscule With Nellie ", recorded in 1957, " was Monk's only, what's called through-composed composition, meaning that there is no improvising.

It is Monk's concerto, if you will, and in some ways it speaks for itself.

The Abbey of the Genesee in the town's hamlet of Piffard is locally famous due to the production of Monk's Bread.

Monk's House is located in the village, the home of the author Virginia Woolf for twenty-one years until her death in 1941.

" More likely, however, is the eight-line ballad stanza with the rhyme scheme " ababbcbc ," which Chaucer used in his Monk's Tale.

Around this time, he toured and recorded with Pianist Hal Galper, first on his own solo album Rough House in 1978, and Galper's album Ivory Forest ( 1980 ), where he is heard playing a solo rendition of Thelonious Monk's " Monk's Mood ".

Upon reading the Scroll, Strucker finds that it contains a recipe for noodle soup, whereas it is later revealed that the true secret of power is tattooed on the Nameless Monk's torso.

By now, Strucker has regained his youth by reading the text of the Scroll, but he is unable to obtain the content of the last line, which is written nowhere and present only in the Nameless Monk's memory.

Strucker attempts to scan the Nameless Monk's brain, but is prevented by Kar himself.

Sha's weapon is the yueyachan (" Crescent-Moon-Shovel " or " Monk's Spade ").

The most recorded standard composed by a jazz musician is Thelonious Monk's "' Round Midnight ".

Among standards written by bebop musicians are Gillespie's " Salt Peanuts " ( 1941 ) and " A Night in Tunisia " ( 1942 ), Parker's " Anthropology " ( 1946 ), " Yardbird Suite " ( 1946 ) and " Scrapple from the Apple " ( 1947 ), and Monk's "' Round Midnight " ( 1944 ), which is currently the most recorded jazz standard composed by a jazz musician.

The Monk's Tale, a brief catalog of the vicissitudes of Fortune, gives a hint of what is to come in Lydgate's massive Fall of Princes ( 36, 365 ), which is also derived, though not directly, from Boccaccio's De Casibus Virorum Illustrium.

In the case of Thelonious Monk, ( b. Rocky Mount, NC, October 10, 1917 ) the North Carolina connection is slight, as Monk's family moved to Manhattan when Monk was four.

However, it is not just Papil's etymology that suggests the site of an early church, confirmation has been found in the form of the " Monk's Stone ", which was dug up in Papil and which is now in the Shetland Museum.

* Chaucer tells a condensed story of Zenobia's life in one of a series of " tragedies " in The Monk's Tale.

The novel was the last of a story arc published to coincide with the series ' 30th anniversary in 1993, in which the Seventh Doctor encounters various alternate realities that have been created due to the Monk's meddling with time, including a reality where the Third Doctor was killed in his confrontation with the Silurians ( Blood Heat ), attempting to distract the Doctor while he helps the Vardans to invade Earth, thus getting their mutual revenge on the Doctor for their losses during their past confrontations with him.

Monk's errors began early in her story.

Monk's story epitomizes the genre-defining elements of a young, innocent woman being trapped in a remote, old, gloomily picturesque estate, where she learns dark secrets and escapes after harrowing adventures.

Many details of the story seem to have originated with Monk's legal guardian, William K. Hoyte, an anti-Catholic activist, and his associates.

Despite the near-unanimous conclusion that the tales were fabrications, and despite Monk's ill repute, some anti-Catholic groups, particularly fundamentalist Protestant authors such as Loraine Boettner and Jack Chick, still cite Monk's story as if it were true.

The prologue clearly links the story with the previous Monk's Tale, a series of short accounts of toppled despots, criminals and fallen heroes which prompts an interruption from the knight.

As a result, later in the story, upon learning that Monk's consultancy contract has been ripped up, an outraged Natalie Teeger believes that Stottlemeyer is just using the latest round of budget cuts as an excuse to cut Monk ( and her ) loose.

On October 9, 1994, linebacker Monte Coleman played in his 206th career game with the Redskins, which broke Art Monk's team record for games played ( Coleman retired at season's end with 216 games played ).

His compositions and improvisations are full of dissonant harmonies and angular melodic twists, and are consistent with Monk's unorthodox approach to the piano, which combined a highly percussive attack with abrupt, dramatic use of silences and hesitations.

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.

Davis found Monk's idiosyncratic accompaniment style difficult to improvise over and asked him to lay out ( not accompany ), which almost brought them to blows.

Powell was the pianist on a handful of Williams's recording dates in 1944, the last of which included the first-ever recording of Monk's "' Round Midnight ".

During " Monk's " funeral, Amsterdam issues a traditional challenge to fight, which Bill accepts.

Magdalene College was first founded in 1428 as Monk's Hostel, which hosted Benedictine student monks.

The Fellows ' Garden, situated behind Pepys Building, included a Roman-era flood barrier bank which became today's Monk's Walk, a raised footpath leading from the south side of Pepys Building to the exit of Fellows ' Garden on Chesterton Lane.

Inspired by hearing Thelonious Monk's "' Round Midnight ", Russell moved to New York in the early 1940s, where he became a member of a coterie of young innovators who frequented the 55th Street apartment of Gil Evans, a clique which included Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Gerry Mulligan, and John Lewis, later involved with the Modern Jazz Quartet.

Monk's professional music career began in 1999 when she responded to an advertisement at the recommendation of her mother which requested girls with vocal and dance experience.

The monks ' work largely consists of baking a brand of bread called Monk's Bread and which is available commercially in Rochester, New York and other nearby markets in western New York.

It should be noted that there is seemingly less interest in Rebecca Reed's account and the ensuing events at Charlestown than in Maria Monk's later account, which has undergone successive reprintings since 1836.

Stottlemeyer also found Sharona Fleming and hired her as Monk's practical nurse, which helped Monk to recover from a state of near-catatonia caused by the loss of Trudy.

This pattern, which forms the basis of countless ( usually uptempo ) jazz compositions, was popular with swing-era musicians: It is found in " Shoeshine Boy " ( Lester Young's 1936 breakout recording with Count Basie ) and " Cotton Tail " written by Duke Ellington in 1940, as well as Charlie Christian's " Seven Come Eleven ", Charlie Parker's " Salt Peanuts ", and Thelonious Monk's " Rhythm-a-Ning ", for instance.