February is Black History Month, which makes it a fine time to sit down and pour through Robin Kelley’s weighty new biography, “Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of An American Original.” Among a ...
Biographer Robin D.G. Kelley wants to clear the air about Thelonious Monk. "His story challenges a very tired idea of the tortured artist ... committed to making an art by any means necessary," Kelley ...
Robin Kelley's Thelonious Monk:The Life And Times of an American Original, was published in 2009 by Free Press and quickly has become a classic, gaining critical acclaim and numerous awards, and ...
“Straight, No Chaser,” by Leslie Gourse. Illustrated. Schirmer Books. 368 pages. $30. Jazz musicians, almost alone among performing artists, have had consistently bad luck with their biographers.
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