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THELONIUS MONK
Born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina 1920. Moved to New York in early childhood. 1939
studied music on his own. Early 1940's played at Minton's Play House and other Harlem
clubs. 1942 worked with Lucky Millinder's band, 1944 with Dizzy Gillespie. 1944
recorded with Coleman Hawkins but did not record again until 1947. Early 1950's worked
primarily on his own but often led small trios. 1957 worked at the Five Spot leading small
quartet with John Coltrane as a sideman, appeared on CBS-TV's "The Sound of Jazz."
1958 worked at the Village Vanguard. 1959 led a large orchestra at the Town Hall, New
York, appeared at Randalls Island, Detroit and other jazz festivals. 1960's led a quartet
with Charlie Rouse. 1963 appeared at Philharmonic Hall, 1964 at Carnegie Hall. Lives in
New York City.
GEORGE MONTGOMERY
Born in Jersey City 1938. Influenced by Jack Kerouac, highly respects Michael McClure,
Jack Micheline, Allen Ginsberg, Emily Dickinson. Did readings at Hunter College,
Rutgers University, State University of New York at Buffalo and on Alan Burke television
show. Lived on Lower East Side, moved to New Paltz. 1968 taught at the Free School of
New York. Ex-editor of Blue Beat, Yowl, and Femora. Has been published in Fuck You,
Kauri, Intrepid, London Observer, Entrails. Author of "Mary Jane Paper"; "Moonblood,"
poems dedicated to Moon-Nymph, Barbara Moraff. He is an active wrestler and is a
certified referee of boxing and wrestling in the State of New York. Lives in Rosendale,
New York.
LOUISE NEVELSON
Born in Kiev, Russia 1900. 1905 came to America; family settled in Rockland, Maine.
1920 moved to New York. 1929-30 studied at the Art Students League with Kenneth Miller
and Kimon Nicolaides. 1931 studied with Hans Hofmann in Munich. 1932 assistant to
Diego Rivera. 1937 as part of W.P.A. taught at the Educational Alliance School of Art.
1941 first one-man show at Nierendorf Gallery, New York. 1947 studied etching with
Stanley William Hayter. 1950-51 did archaeological studies in Mexico. 1957-59
president of New York chapter of Artists' Equity. 1963 and 1967 Tamarind Lithography
Workshop. One-man shows include: Grand Central Moderns Gallery, New York, 1956, 57,
58; Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, 1961,1962; Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, 1963.
Pace Gallery, New York, 1964. Some group exhibitions: "Nature in Abstraction," Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York, 1958; "Sixteen Americans," Museum of Modern Art,
New York, 1959; "New Forms-New Media," Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, 1960;
"The Art of Assemblage," Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1961; "Painting and
Sculpture of a Decade," Tate Gallery, London, 1964. Lives in New York City.159
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