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Author: Robin Kelley
Number of Pages: 592 pages
Published Date: 02 Nov 2010
Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER
Publication Country: New York, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781439190463
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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 composers. Elegantly written and rich with humor and pathos, "Thelonious Monk "is the definitive work on modern jazz s most original composer."