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Prelude | |
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"My Mother Didn't Want Me to Grow Up in North Carolina" | |
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"What Is Jazz? New York, Man!" | |
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"I Always Did Want to Play Piano" | |
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"We Played and She Healed" | |
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"Why Can't You Play Music Like the Ink Spots?" | |
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"They Weren't Giving Any Lectures" | |
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"Since You Went Away I Missed You" | |
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"I'm Trying to See If It's a Hit" | |
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"Dizzy and Bird Did Nothing for Me Musically" | |
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"The George Washington of Bebop" | |
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"It's a Drag to Be in Jail" | |
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"The 'Un' Years" | |
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"France Libre!" | |
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"Sometimes I Play Things I Never Heard Myself" | |
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"The Greta Garbo of Jazz" | |
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"As Long as I Can Make a Living" | |
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"People Have Tried to Put Me Off as Being Crazy" | |
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"My Time for Fame Will Come" | |
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"The Police Just Mess with You ... for Nothing" | |
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"Make Sure Them Tempos Are Right" | |
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"Hell, I Did That Twenty-Five Years Ago" | |
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"Bebopens Oversteprast" | |
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"Maybe I'm a Major Influence" | |
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"Everything Begins Here and Everything Ends Here" | |
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"That's a Drag Picture They're Paintin' of Me" | |
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"Sometimes I Don't Feel Like Talking" | |
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"Let Someone Else Create Something New!" | |
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"What Do I Have to Do? Play Myself to Death?" | |
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"I Am Very Seriously Ill" | |
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Postlude | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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A Technical Note on Monk's Music | |
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Records and Tapes in Thelonious Monk's Personal Collection | |
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Notes | |
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Original Compositions by Thelonious Monk | |
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Selected Recordings by Thelonious Monk | |
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Selected Documentaries and Videos of Thelonious Monk | |
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Index | |