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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 | |