Thelonious Monk's birth name is Monk, Thelonious Sphere.
Chat with our AI personalities
Thelonious Monk went by Melodious, The High Priest of Bebop, The Mad Monk, and The Genius of Modern Music.
Monk knows.
Thomas Fitterling, in Thelonious Monk: His Life and Music(1997), points out that Monk's middle name, "Sphere," derives from his maternal grandmother, Sphere Batts. Not a hipster's cool affectation, "Sphere" was part of Monk's given name according to family documents.
Adrian Monk was married to Trudy Monk for seven years before her death in 1997.
The name for a new monk is a novice. For the men who are discerning and who live in the community, they are called postulants.