In 1993, he was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2006, he was awarded a special Pulitzer Prize for "a body of distinguished and innovative musical composition that has had a significant and enduring impact on the evolution of jazz". He was inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame in 2009.
Criss-Cross is a post-bop album featuring complex melodies and harmonies, Monk's unique style of stride piano, and his unique ideas on pitch qualities for his improvisations.
Rouse was a member of Thelonious Monk's quartet from 1959 to 1970. In the 1980s he was a founding member of the group Sphere, which began as a tribute to Monk.
The main melodic theme of "Epistrophy" was composed by Clarke, after experimenting with fingerings on the ukulele, and the chords where written by Monk.
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