Music: Misterioso No More: Book Debunks Image of a Jazz Giant
New York Times (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
Let’s say goodbye forever to an old jazz myth: as inexplicable mad genius.Eddie LockeThelonious Monk, backstage at the Village Gate in 1962. Related (October 18, 2009) (October 18, 2009) Times Topics: Don Hunstein/Sony Music ArchivesMonk, on keyboard, with the saxophonist Charlie Rouse in an undated photo. Throughout much of his music career, Monk was perceived as aloof and eccentric....