The Thelonious Monk Reader

Author : Rob van der Bliek
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001-02-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199761470

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The Thelonious Monk Reader by Rob van der Bliek Pdf

Of all the major jazz artists, Thelonious Monk was one of the most original musical thinkers--nonconformist, idiosyncratic, imaginative, eccentric--in a word, unique. In The Thelonious Monk Reader, Rob van der Bliek has brought together some of the most revealing pieces ever written on Monk, providing a full portrait of the musician and his impact on the jazz world. Here is a wealth of information that was previously scattered and difficult to locate, including a wide range of articles, profiles, reviews, interviews, liner notes, and music analyses. Ranging in date from 1947 to 1999, these 39 pieces feature the work of some of our best jazz critics, including Leonard Feather, Ira Gitler, Nat Hentoff, Andre Hodeir, Gunther Schuller, Martin Williams, and many others. The book spans Monk's childhood and early recordings with Blue Note and Prestige, his Riverside period and the critical recognition that followed the release of Brilliant Corners, and his fame and fortune during his Columbia years. Readers will find colorful descriptions of Monk's eccentric lifestyle as well as thoughtful commentary on his unorthodox piano technique, which was marked by off-center accents and idiosyncratic voicings, broken rhythms, alternately dense and stripped down chords, and creative use of silence. Rob van der Bliek also provides a general introduction and brief introductions to each piece as well as critical annotations that place the work in context. Controversial, often contradictory, and always engaging, these readings offer a complete view of the man, his music, and his time. The only such book on Monk's life and work, this volume will be "must reading" for jazz fans and scholars, musicians, music lovers, and readers with an interest in African-American culture.

Author : Robin D. G. Kelley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781439190463

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Thelonious Monk by Robin D. G. Kelley Pdf

The first full biography of Thelonious Monk, written by a brilliant historian, with full access to the family's archives and with dozens of interviews.

Author : Leslie Gourse
Publisher : Schirmer Trade Books
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0825672295

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Straight, No Chaser by Leslie Gourse Pdf

This biography of the legendary pianist/composer tells the story of the tragic life and creative genius of Monk, based on scores of interviews with his family, friends, and compatriots.

Author : Youssef Daoudi
Publisher : First Second
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781250224873

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Monk! by Youssef Daoudi Pdf

"Read this invigorating graphic narrative, then—quickly, before the spell breaks!—play one of Monk's records." —Saul Williams She is Kathleen Annie Pannonica de Koenigswarter, a free-spirited baroness of the Rothschild family. He is Thelonious Sphere Monk, a musical genius fighting against the whims of his troubled mind. Their enduring friendship begins in 1954 and ends only with Monk’s death in 1982. Set against the backdrop of New York during the heyday of jazz, Monk! explores the rare alchemy between two brilliant beings separated by an ocean of social status, race, and culture, but united by an infinite love of music. This breathtaking graphic novel by Youssef Daoudi beautifully captures the life of the “the high priest of bop” in spontaneous, evocative pen and ink that seems to make visible jazz itself.

Author : Thomas Fitterling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : African American musicians
ISBN : UOM:39015039131936

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Thelonious Monk by Thomas Fitterling Pdf

-- First comprehensive study of Monk, one of the 20th century's most original and influential creative artists, available in the States. -- Thoroughly revised and beautifully redesigned for American readers, including fifty studio, performance and personal photographs. -- Lively and authoritative biographical section reveals the public as well as the private life of this pivotal figure. -- Analysis of Monk both as a pianist and composer, by an established jazz critic and musician. -- Up-to-date narrative discography gives detailed descriptions of all Monk recordings currently available on record and CD. Gives readers the story behind the music. -- Fifty carefully selected photographs documenting the modern jazz movement. -- Complete and current catalog of Monk material, including video as well as CDs and rare recordings. -- Glossary of key jazz terminology.

Author : Aidan Levy
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780306902826

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Saxophone Colossus by Aidan Levy Pdf

**Winner of the American Book Award (2023)** ​**Longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award (2023)** The long-awaited first full biography of legendary jazz saxophonist and composer Sonny Rollins Sonny Rollins has long been considered an enigma. Known as the “Saxophone Colossus,” he is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest jazz improvisers of all time, winning Grammys, the Austrian Cross of Honor, Sweden’s Polar Music Prize and a National Medal of Arts. A bridge from bebop to the avant-garde, he is a lasting link to the golden age of jazz, pictured in the iconic “Great Day in Harlem” portrait. His seven-decade career has been well documented, but the backstage life of the man once called “the only jazz recluse” has gone largely untold—until now. Based on more than 200 interviews with Rollins himself, family members, friends, and collaborators, as well as Rollins’ extensive personal archive, Saxophone Colossus is the comprehensive portrait of this legendary saxophonist and composer, civil rights activist and environmentalist. A child of the Harlem Renaissance, Rollins’ precocious talent landed him on the bandstand and in the recording studio with Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie, or playing opposite Billie Holiday. An icon in his own right, he recorded Tenor Madness, featuring John Coltrane; Way Out West; Freedom Suite, the first civil rights-themed album of the hard bop era; A Night at the Village Vanguard; and the 1956 classic Saxophone Colossus. Yet his meteoric rise to fame was not without its challenges. He served two sentences on Rikers Island and won his battle with heroin addiction. In 1959, Rollins took a two-year sabbatical from recording and performing, practicing up to 16 hours a day on the Williamsburg Bridge. In 1968, he left again to study at an ashram in India. He returned to performing from 1971 until his retirement in 2012. The story of Sonny Rollins—innovative, unpredictable, larger than life—is the story of jazz itself, and Sonny’s own narrative is as timeless and timely as the art form he represents. Part jazz oral history told in the musicians’ own words, part chronicle of one man’s quest for social justice and spiritual enlightenment, this is the definitive biography of one of the most enduring and influential artists in jazz and American history.

Author : Colin Larkin
Publisher : Omnibus Press
Page : 1600 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780857125958

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The Encyclopedia of Popular Music by Colin Larkin Pdf

This text presents a comprehensive and up-to-date reference work on popular music, from the early 20th century to the present day.

Author : Steven Otfinoski
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781438107769

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African Americans in the Performing Arts by Steven Otfinoski Pdf

Includes profiles of African-American performing artists. Provides brief biographies, subject indexes, further reading suggestions and general index. Part of a 10-volume set--each volume devoted to the contributions of African Americans in a particular cultural field. This text contains profiles of some 190 performing artists from choreographer Alvin Ailey to hip hop producer Dr. Dre (nee Andre Young). Each entry provides a biographical sketch of the artist's career and lists readings and other materials of interest. The contributions of musicians receive comparatively greater coverage than other artistic endeavors.

Author : Tom Perchard
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472052424

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After Django by Tom Perchard Pdf

How did French musicians and critics interpret jazz--that quintessentially American music--in the mid-twentieth century? How far did players reshape what they learned from records and visitors into more local jazz forms, and how did the music figure in those angry debates that so often suffused French cultural and political life? After Django begins with the famous interwar triumphs of Josephine Baker and Django Reinhardt, but, for the first time, the focus here falls on the French jazz practices of the postwar era. The work of important but neglected French musicians such as Andr Hodeir and Barney Wilen is examined in depth, as are native responses to Americans such as Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk. The book provides an original intertwining of musical and historical narrative, supported by extensive archival work; in clear and compelling prose, Perchard describes the problematic efforts towards aesthetic assimilation and transformation made by those concerned with jazz in fact and in idea, listening to the music as it sounded in discourses around local identity, art, 1968 radicalism, social democracy, and post colonial politics.

Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
Page : 3197 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Focus On: 100 Most Popular Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award Winners by Wikipedia contributors Pdf

Author : Chris Sheridan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001-04-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780313016400

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Brilliant Corners by Chris Sheridan Pdf

In this masterful compilation, world-recognized discographer Chris Sheridan draws together the most comprehensive reconstruction of Thelonious Monk's performances and recordings. Woven through the chronological listing of Monk's work is the story of his rise to acceptance as one of the key pianists and composers of jazz and his decline in health and popularity to his death in 1982. Following a Prologue which attempts to summarize the career and man, the narrative discography covers Monk's entire performance career. This is followed by appendixes listing all microgroove and post-microgroove issues of Monk's performances, all known commercially produced films and videos in which Monk took part, a listing of all of his engagements from 1944 until his career petered out in the mid-1970s, and a bibliography. The work concludes with an index of the people, places, producers, and radio and television programs referred to or quoted in the main taxt, a listing of all musicians, vocalists, and broadcast presenters who took part in the recordings or who played in Monk's bands, an index of all the titles used for Monk's tunes by other musicians and vocalists, and a listing of all tunes played, together with their composers and, where relevant, lyricists. A comprehensive reference work for all scholars and other researchers involved with jazz from the 1940s onward.

Author : Eddie S. Meadows
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781136776038

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Jazz by Eddie S. Meadows Pdf

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Michael Tenzer,John Roeder
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199874705

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Analytical and Cross-Cultural Studies in World Music by Michael Tenzer,John Roeder Pdf

This collection presents intriguing explanations of extraordinary musical creations from across the world, concentrating on how the music works as sound in process. It suggests analytical approaches that apply across cultures, proposes a new way of classifying music, and treats provocative questions about the juxtaposition of music from different cultures.

Author : Murray Steib
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135942625

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Reader's Guide to Music by Murray Steib Pdf

The Reader's Guide to Music is designed to provide a useful single-volume guide to the ever-increasing number of English language book-length studies in music. Each entry consists of a bibliography of some 3-20 titles and an essay in which these titles are evaluated, by an expert in the field, in light of the history of writing and scholarship on the given topic. The more than 500 entries include not just writings on major composers in music history but also the genres in which they worked (from early chant to rock and roll) and topics important to the various disciplines of music scholarship (from aesthetics to gay/lesbian musicology).

Author : Geoff Dyer
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780857863355

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But Beautiful by Geoff Dyer Pdf

Lester Young fading away in a hotel room; Charles Mingus storming down the streets of New York on a too-small bicycle; Thelonius Monk creating his own private language on the piano. . . In eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skilfully evokes the embattled lives of the players who shaped modern jazz. He draws on photos and anecdotes, but music is the driving force of But Beautiful and Dyer brings it to life in luminescent and wildly metaphoric prose that mirrors the quirks, eccentricity, and brilliance of each musician's style.