Thelonious Monk : his life and music / by Fitterling, Thomas

“…Thelonious Monk.…”

Thelonious Monk / by Monk, Thelonious

Straight, no chaser : the life and genius of Thelonious Monk / by Gourse, Leslie

Jazz matters : reflections on the music & some of its makers / by Ramsey, Douglas K.

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Rethinking American music /

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Icons of Black music / by Greig, Charlotte, 1954-

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88 : the giants of jazz piano / by Doerschuk, Bob

Table of Contents: “…Johnson -- Willie "the Lion" Smith -- Fats Waller -- Duke Ellington -- Earl Hines -- Count Basie -- Mary Lou Williams -- Teddy Wilson -- Nat "King" Cole -- Dorothy Donegan -- Art Tatum -- Erroll Garner -- Ahmad Jamal -- Oscar Peterson -- Phineas Newborn -- Bud Powell -- Tadd Dameron -- Hank Jones -- Jaki Byard -- Red Garland -- Tommy Flanagan -- Barry Harris -- Sir Roland Hanna -- Thelonious Monk -- Horace Silver -- Wynton Kelly -- Ray Bryant -- Ramsey Lewis -- Les McCann -- Bobby Timmons -- Herbie Hancock -- Bill Evans -- George Shearing -- Marian McPartland --…”

Jazz heroes / by Fordham, John

Table of Contents: “…The story of jazz -- Dizzy Gillespie -- Thelonious Monk -- Gerry Mulligan -- Ella Fitzgerald -- Wes Montgomery -- John Coltrane.…”

Jazz piano : 14 transcriptions of recorded performances by 14 innovative jazz pianists /

Table of Contents: “…Ad lib blues / Count Basie -- All of you / Herbie Hancock -- All the things you are / Bud Powell -- Dark eyes / Tommy Flanagan -- Frankie and Johnny /Errol Garner -- Greensleeves / Jimmy Smith -- Honeysuckle rose / Nat King Cole -- Humoreske / Mary Lou Williams -- I can't get started / Teddy Wilson -- Miserere (from II Trovatore) / Jelly Roll Morton -- My funny Valentine / Bill Evans -- Nice work if you can get it / Thelonious Monk -- This is new / Chick Corea -- When you and I were young, Maggie / Fats Waller.…”

The Charlie Parker companion : six decades of commentary /

'Round midnight, and 51 great jazz classics /

Clark : the autobiography of Clark Terry / by Terry, Clark

Making notes : music of the Carolinas /

Table of Contents: “…Davis ; John Coltrane : key notes / Richard Garrison ; Thelonious Monk / Sam Stephenson ; Dizzy Gillespie / David Perlmutt ; Billy Taylor : music for the millennium / T. …”

Music: The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culutre Volume 12 /

Table of Contents: “…Lomax -- Louisiana Hayride -- Bascom Lamar Lunsford -- Loretta Lynn -- Lynyrd Skynyrd -- Uncle Dave Macon -- Malaco Records -- Mandolin -- Wynton Marsalis -- Johnny Mercer -- Meters -- Mexican border stations -- Memphis Minnie -- Thelonious Monk -- Bill Monroe -- McKinley (Muddy Waters) Morganfield -- Jelly Roll Morton (Ferdinand Le Menthe) --…”

Essential jazz : the first 100 years / by Martin, Henry, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…The Bebop era. revolution versus evolution : The war years and the 1940s -- Characteristics of the bebop style : A contrafact: Dizzy Gillespie's "Groovin' high" -- The historical origins of bebop : The early forties: jamming at Minton's and Monroe's ; The American Federation of Musicians strike in 1942 ; Big bands in the early 1940s ; Bebop moves to Fifty-second Street -- The architects of bebop : Charlie Parker ; Dizzy Gillespie ; Latin jazz ; Bud Powell ; Thelonious Monk…”