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Robin D.G. Kelley spent 14 years on a new book, which some are calling the definitive work on a jazz legend. In Thelonious Monk: The Life and... In A New Biography, Monk Minus The Myth Biographer ...

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 ...