Monk's music
Subtitle: Thelonious Monk and jazz history in the making
By: Gabriel Solis
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780520252004; 9780520252011
Subjects: Monk, Thelonious -- Criticism and interpretation; Monk, Thelonious -- Influence; Jazz -- History and criticism
Notes: "Roth Family Foundation music in America imprint."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-231) and index
Table of contents: title: Monk and his music. A biographical sketch ; Hearing Monk : history, memory, and the making of a jazz giant; title: Monk, memory, and the moment of performance. The question of voice ; Three pianists and the Monk legacy : Fred Hersch, Danilo Perez, and Jessica Williams; title: Inside and outside : Monk's legacy, neoconservatism, and the avant-garde. Defining a genre : Monk and the struggle to authenticate jazz at the end of the twentieth century ; "Classicism" and performance ; Monk and avant-garde positions ; Loving care : Steve Lacy, Roswell Rudd, and Randy Weston