Monk's Music

Thelonious Monk (1917-1982) was one of jazz''s greatest and most enigmatic figures. As a composer, pianist, and bandleader, Monk both extended the piano tradition known as Harlem stride and was at the center of modern jazz''s creation during the 1940s, setting the stage for the experimentalism of the 1960s and ''70s. This pathbreaking study combines cultural theory, biography, and musical analysis...