Jazz Musician (10-Oct-1917 — 17-Feb-1982)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Laurent De Wilde. Monk. PGW. 1998. 224pp.

Thomas Fitterling. Translated by Robert Dobbin. Thelonious Monk: His Life and Music. Berkeley Hills Books. 1997. 238pp.

Leslie Gourse. Straight, No Chaser: The Life and Genius of Thelonious Monk. Schirmer Books. 1997. 340pp.

Chris Sheridan. Brilliant Corners: A Bio-Discography of Thelonious Monk. Greenwood Publishing Group. 2001. 510pp.

Gabriel Solis. Monk's Music: Thelonious Monk and Jazz History in the Making. University of California Press. 2008. 239pp.

Rob Van der Bliek (editor). The Thelonious Monk Reader. Oxford University Press. 2001. 286pp.

PARALLELS

Below are references indicating presence of this name in another database or other reference material. Most of the sources listed are encyclopedic in nature but might be limited to a specific field, such as musicians or film directors. A lack of listings here does not indicate unimportance -- we are nowhere near finished with this portion of the project -- though if many are shown it does indicate a wide recognition of this individual.

1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Internet Movie Database [link]

4. Wikipedia [link]

5. Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians (p.428)

6. International Dictionary of 20th Century Biography (p.490)

7. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 5th Edition (p.1029)

8. Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, 8th Edition (p.677)

9. Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography (p.508)

10. Hutchinson Paperback Dictionary of Biography (p.349)

11. The World Almanac Biographical Dictionary (p.347)

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