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Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original

Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original

Kelley, Robin D. G.

Paperback

MusiciansGeneral World HistoryJazz

Publisher Price: $23.00

ISBN10: 1439190461
ISBN13: 9781439190463
Publisher: Free Press
Published: Nov 2 2010
Pages: 624
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.70 Width: 5.80 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Awards: Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award
From the mind of brilliant historian Robin Kelley comes the first full biography of legendary jazz musician Thelonious Monk, including full access to the family's archives, dozens of interviews, and an afterword for Monk's 2017 centennial.

Thelonious Monk is the critically acclaimed, gripping saga of an artist's struggle to make it without compromising his musical vision. It is a story that, like its subject, reflects the tidal ebbs and flows of American history in the twentieth century.

To his fans, he was the ultimate hipster; to his detractors, he was temperamental, eccentric, taciturn, or childlike. His angular melodies and dissonant harmonies shook the jazz world to its foundations, ushering in the birth of bebop and establishing Monk as one of America's greatest com-posers.

Elegantly written and rich with humor and pathos, Thelonious Monk is the definitive work on modern jazz's most original composer.

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