Monk Biography

[Peter]

Any word on when Peter Keepnews's biography of Thelonious Monk is coming out?

[bichos]

their plan is to bring out a big box together with peter pullman´s bud powell biography, peter keepnews´ monk biography and jack chamber´s twardzik biography. a little book-shop in andorra has it. i´m sure! :-)

keep waitin´ and boppin´

marcel

[Christiern]

This has been dicussed here before. As I stated in that thread, I don't expect much from Peter's book, although I respect him as a writer on other subjects. The problem is that tackling this subject presents him with a dilemma: does he write the truth and thus debunk his father's accounts or does he preserve his father's self-congratulatory image and give us another skewed look at Monk? I hope he opts for the former but fear it will be the latter.

As far as I know, Robin Kelley's book is still in the works and I base my positive expectations strictly on my own conversations with him. In other words, I have good reason to be skeptical when it comes to Peter's book and, so far, no reason to feel the same about Robin's.