Show me some prime jazz, music nerds

EDIT: WOW I did not expect that many replies, thank you all for the fantastic examples.

  • comrade_pibb [comrade/them]
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    4 months ago

    Can't let a jazz thread in a lefty space go by without posting the greatest album cover in jazz: Thelonious Monk, Underground

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    • anonochronomus [comrade/them, she/her]
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      4 months ago

      When Monk went on a European tour in the late 60s, the entire time he didn't say a single word to anyone in the band. Months after they got back, he called the band members to apologize. He said he just couldn't talk to them because they were too ugly.