Milli Häuser has newly arranged the instrumental pieces for her quartet and sings Monk's works, predominantly with her own lyrics in English and German. There are also jazz improvisations by the musicians as well as biographical-poetic moments about Monk's life.

The African-American pianist Thelonious Monk (1917-1982) is considered one of the most important innovators of Modern Jazz with his idiosyncratic piano style and his unmistakable compositions... Alongside the musical expressions, the human Thelonious Monk reappears repeatedly, a quirky bird, one could say, never quite landed in the everyday – but this was precisely the prerequisite that the artist needed for his genius attacks... . www.milli-haeuser.de | www.tatort-jazz.de