Chords for Hans Groiner: The Music of Thelonious Monk, episode 1

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My name is Hans Greuner.
I am from Austria, _ the city of _ Braunau, the home
city of Adolf Hitler.
_ But don't hold that against me.
Anyway, I grew up playing
accordion very young.
I think I was two.
I could barely hold it, _ of course, but it
was fun.
I heard the first jazz that I heard when I was _ seven.
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_ _ [Eb] I did not like it.
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For the most part I still do not like it, but when [N] I was 10 I heard _ _ Thelonious
Monk, _ who I did not like.
But as I grew a little older I discovered that there was
some great potential in the music of Monk, and if only _ certain
elements of it were changed. _
His notes were very, some of them very wrong
sounding and dissonant.
Also the rhythms were not _ _ _ right.
So _ _ _ from the age of about
20 I decided to take on a project of making the music of Monk more _ _ accessible.
And so every day I put the Monk record on [G] my _ record _ _ _ player and
tried to find the spots where I did not like the [N] music, which were many, and I
started to _ change them. _
_ _ _ I'll show you _ an example of how I come to the concept of
the Monk _ interpretation. _ _ _
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_ [D] I cannot listen [Bbm] to more. _ _
Okay, Gnuk, [F] how [Gb] do you turn this off?
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And now my interpretation [C] of Monk's Well You Needn't.
I think you will like
it as much as I know I will.
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[A] My music _ breathes _ _ _ calmness and serenity, and when I combine it
with the music of Monk, [N] this to me is what Monk was trying to do.
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