Eventually he achieved the recognition he deserved, though his rise to success was long and difficult. He struggled to rise from penury and play his music for audiences that didn’t really understand his “weird” chord progressions and unique rhythms. From his formative years in the fertile soil of 1930s Harlem, Monk was a New Yorker through and through.
Kelley’s anecdotes show a humorous, generous and outspoken man who was beloved by family and friends-almost the opposite of the brooding, quizzical persona with which he greeted the press. To combat the charge that Monk had no formal training and no knowledge of classical music, the author offers numerous examples from his childhood and teen years, when he rattled off Rachmaninoff at top speed. of Southern California Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, 2002, etc.) attempts to correct the many misconceptions, both personal and musical, that haunted Monk throughout his life and attended his image in the press. With this encyclopedic portrait, Kelley (History and American Studies and Ethnicity/Univ. Few question his unparalleled talent, but the taint of mental illness has cast him as a bit of an outsider. The name Thelonious Monk (1917–1982) has long been surrounded by a kind of tragic mystique. A comprehensive chronicle of the jazz legend’s life.
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