No, certainly not. They just happen to have the same last name
Monk attended Stuyvesant High School, but did not graduate.
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His nicknames were Melodious, The Mad Monk, The High Priest of Bebop, or The Genius of Modern Music.
Thelonious Monk died on February 17, 1982 at the age of 64.
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