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Brilliant Corners A Bio-Discography of Thelonious Monk
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Chris Sheridan
ISBN: 0-313-30239-1
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-30239-8
560 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 4/30/2001
List Price: $159.95 (UK Sterling Price: £110.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Awards:
  • 2002 ARSC Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research
    Best Research in the Field of Recorded Jazz or Blues
Description: 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.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
    Portrait of an Eremite
    Misterioso
    Hackensack
    Brilliance
    Four In One
    Crepuscule
    Reflections
    Appendices
    Indexes
About the Author: CHRIS SHERIDAN is a discographer, writer, and UK correspondent for Down Beat. Former editor of British network television news programs and award-winning producer, Sheridan has a parallel life as a jazz writer, publishing in magazines in the United States, Germany, France, Italy, and Japan as well as the UK. He is well-known as a discographer, first through a 15-year stewardship of the world's longest-running discographical column, Jazz Journal's Jazz Information, and then for his international praised bio-discographies, Count Basie: A Bio-Discography (Greenwood Press, 1986) and Dis Here: A Bio-Discography of Julian Cannonball Adderley (Greenwood Press, 2000).
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