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Misterioso no more - Book debunks "mad genius" image of Thelonious Monk
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Dave U. Random
Oct 18, 2009, 9:24:07 PM10/18/09
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(NY Times) - Let�s say goodbye forever to an old jazz myth:
Thelonious Monk as inexplicable mad genius. Robin D. G.
Kelley�s biography, �Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of
an American Original,� (Amazon.com:
http://xrl.us/MonkOriginal ) is an omnibus of myth-busting.
It holds the largest amount of helpful, uncaricatured
information about Monk in one place and goes a long way to
correct a reductive understanding of Monk as a person, if
not necessarily Monk as an artist, that has persisted for
more than 60 years..
Thelonious Monk as inexplicable mad genius. Robin D. G.
Kelley�s biography, �Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of
an American Original,� (Amazon.com:
http://xrl.us/MonkOriginal ) is an omnibus of myth-busting.
It holds the largest amount of helpful, uncaricatured
information about Monk in one place and goes a long way to
correct a reductive understanding of Monk as a person, if
not necessarily Monk as an artist, that has persisted for
more than 60 years..
Continued: http://xrl.us/MonkOriginal2
Thelonious Monk - "Blue Monk" (YouTube:
http://xrl.us/BlueMonk)
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