M. G. Stephens

  Visions of Thelonious Sphere Monk at The club piano, playing “Monk’s Dream” Or “Green Chimneys” or “Well You Needn’t,” Man oh man, those were great nights to be there When the musical genius in the fedora Showed up four hours after he was due to play, But none of the customers seemed to mind

For two years Eileen lived in Queen’s Crescent, on the southern edge of Hampstead Heath, in the ground floor flat of a Victorian semi-detached building, with her landlord living above her.