- Pannonica Rothschild: Good evening everybody this Nica Stemper, And tonight we are coming to you direct from the five spot cafe. And that beautiful music you hear is coming from Thelonious Monk and his quartet.
- Hannah Rothschild - Narrator: At Rothschild houses like Waddesdon no one bother to pick cherries. It was seen as far more elegant to have the gardeners carry the actual trees around the table so we could choose which fruit we wanted. At breakfast guests were offered a choice of long horn, short horn or jersey milk with their tea.
- Thelonious Monk Jr.: Thelonious was the high priest or Archbishop of Bebop, but he was the father of modern jazz. Because, it was the harmonic possibilities that Thelonious brought to the table that freed the Charlie Parkers, the John Coltranes, the Dizzy Gillespies from the chains of popular American music.
- Chico Hamilton: And Monk's bass player he says, " Man, I've played with piano players who played on all the white keys, and I've played with piano players who played on all the black keys, but i ain't never played with a motherfucker who played in between the cracks." He was talking about Monk.