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 to shed new
light on Monk's music and on the jazz canon itself. Gabriel Solis shows
how the work of this stubbornly nonconformist composer emerged from the
jazz world's fringes to find a central place in its canon. Solis reaches
well beyond the usual life-and-times biography to address larger issues
in jazz scholarship―ethnography and the role of memory in history's
construction. He considers how Monk's stature has grown, from the
narrowly focused wing of the avant-garde in the 1960s and '70s to the
present, where he is claimed as an influence by musicians of all kinds.
He looks at the ways musical lineages are created in the jazz world and,
in the process, addresses the question of how musicians use performance
itself to maintain, interpret, and debate the history of the musical
tradition we call jazz.
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