Thelonious Monk Personality Type, MBTI
What is the personality type of Thelonious Monk? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for Thelonious Monk from Jazz & Blues and what is the personality traits.
INTP (5w4)
Thelonious Monk personality type is INTP, while his wife, Mary Lou Williams is another form of INTP, "an introverted intuitive type with a curious mind":
Mary Lou Williams is a jazz pianist and composer. She is a jazz pianist, composer, and educator. In addition to being a pianist, she is a composer and arranger of many of her own compositions. Her work has been cited for its "intricate harmonies, original phrasing and sound, and a penchant for unusual modulations." She has been dubbed "one of the best of the modern jazz composers".
In the above picture, Monk is not wearing a hat. His wife Mary Lou Williams is wearing a hat. Monk's ears are proportionately larger than hers.
Both Thelonious Monk and Mary Lou Williams are INTPs.
Learning more about INTPs will help you understand why INTPs tend to wear hats.
Thelonious Sphere Monk (October 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982) was an American jazz pianist and composer. He had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "'Round Midnight", "Blue Monk", "Straight, No Chaser", "Ruby, My Dear", "In Walked Bud", and "Well, You Needn't". Monk is the second-most-recorded jazz composer after Duke Ellington, which is particularly remarkable as Ellington composed more than a thousand pieces, whereas Monk wrote about 70.[
