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22 July 2008, 08:19 PM
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The loneliest monk
Comment: Is it true that during the 1992 presidential campaign, a young
MTV News reporter asked Governor Bill Clinton for a list of his favorite musicians, and when he included the Jazz legend Thelonious Monk, the reporter asked, "who is the loneliest monk?" I have heard this story many times, but have never been able to verify if it is true. This article http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=18738 calls it "apocryphal," but many other sources repeat it as undisputed fact http://www.salon.com/ent/music/vowe/1998/05/11vowe.html. The reporter is usually identified as Tabitha Soren. 
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22 July 2008, 10:18 PM
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Looks like it was just a rumor, originally reported by Liz Smith. Here's a fairly contemporaneous article in which Soren herself denies it:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag...pagewanted=all -- Hip "That is, if we can trust the NY Times" Zu
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22 July 2008, 10:19 PM
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Or maybe he did mean poor unfortunate Brother Halitosis.
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22 July 2008, 10:20 PM
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Why is a surprise that a young reporter hasn't heard of Thelonious Monk?
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27 July 2008, 07:26 PM
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Quote:
A little like a philosophy student asking, "Who was So Crates?"
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