JazzStandards Bookstore (<i>Monk</i>)

This is a very colorful, succinctly written biography of pianist/composer, Theolonious Sphere Monk. De Wilde’s prose is irresistible as it should be for such a genius as Monk. The author covers aspects relating to Monk’s career such as the recording scene, the producers, the jazz milieu, Monk’s sidemen, and more.

For jazz standards readers, de Wilde, a musician as well as an author, discusses particular recordings so that you can sit down with the book and your CD’s and learn while you listen. There is no index.

Laurent de Wilde divides his time between Paris and New York. The jazz pianist has recorded six albums of his own, one of which, Open Changes, received the Django Reinhardt Award in 1993. Monk was named best book of the year by the Academie du Jazz and won the Firecracker Alternative Book Award for Music.

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The JazzStandards.com bookstore provides you with a catalog of 200 books associated with the jazz standards. Organized by category, each entry has an editorial comment to aid you in your research and guide you in your recreational reading.

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The books used to research and develop JazzStandards.com are listed in this bookstore and may be considered the site bibliography.

The primary focus of these books is not always the jazz standards per se, so each entry is annotated indicating the book's relevance to the subject. If there is a book you feel we have overlooked, please let us know the title and how it supports the research or recreational study of the jazz standards.

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