Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction PART ONE. MONK AND HIS MUSIC 1. Prelude: A Biographical Sketch 2. Hearing Monk: History, Memory, and the Making of a Jazz Giant PART TWO. MONK, MEMORY, AND THE MOMENT OF PERFORMANCE 3. The Question of Voice 4. Three Pianists and the Monk Legacy: Fred Hersch, Danilo Perez, and Jessica Williams PART THREE. INSIDE AND OUTSIDE: MONK'S LEGACY, NEOCONSERVATISM, AND THE AVANT-GARDE 5. Defining a Genre: Monk and the Struggle to Authenticate Jazz at the End of the Twentieth Century 6. "Classicism" and Performance 7. Monk and Avant-Garde Positions 8. Loving Care: Steve Lacy, Roswell Rudd, and Randy Weston Afterword Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author

Gabriel Solis is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

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