![]() ![]() Settling into a West 64th Street apartment that would stay his lifelong home, he still found that "we had to fight to make it so we could walk the streets" to school in the racially charged neighborhood. Born in North Carolina in 1917, Thelonious Monk became a New Yorker at age 4 when his struggling family joined the Great Migration of black people from the South into what they hoped would be more hospitable cities. Kelley, a respected historian at the University of Southern California, begins with some admirable genealogical work, tracing Monk's ancestry back generations, through slavery and pseudo-freedom in the South. Given Monk's lasting musical stature, it's surprising the authoritative and authorized biography has taken so long to arrive, but Robin D.G. So who was this man, who belongs in the jazz pantheon with the likes of Armstrong, Ellington, Parker, Davis, Coltrane, Mingus and few others, and why was he both so revered and controversial in his time? ![]()
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