– Weekly salary paid to John Coltrane by Thelonious Monk in 1957 for playing tenor saxophone in Monk’s quartet: $100
– The same amount in today’s dollars, courtesy of Inflation Calculator: $679.61
(Source: Lewis Porter, JazzTimes, October 2005)
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– Weekly salary paid to John Coltrane by Thelonious Monk in 1957 for playing tenor saxophone in Monk’s quartet: $100
– The same amount in today’s dollars, courtesy of Inflation Calculator: $679.61
(Source: Lewis Porter, JazzTimes, October 2005)
– Weekly salary paid to John Coltrane by Thelonious Monk in 1957 for playing tenor saxophone in Monk’s quartet: $100
– The same amount in today’s dollars, courtesy of Inflation Calculator: $679.61
(Source: Lewis Porter, JazzTimes, October 2005)
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