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Brilliant Corners A Bio-Discography of Thelonious Monk
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Chris Sheridan
Book Code: GR0239
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: £90.00)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects:
Series Title: Discographies
Series Number: 89
Awards:
  • 2002 ARSC Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research
    Best Research in the Field of Recorded Jazz or Blues
Reviews:
  • thus this set is a fine overview of a brilliant innovator. It is a book to be read, and to be consulted when playing the records.
    —The International Association of Jazz Record Collectors Journal
  • ...strongly recommended.
    —VJM's Jazz and Blues Mart
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
LC Card Number: 2001023185
LCC Class: ML156
Dewey Class: 786
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