How long does it take to read Thelonious Monk?
Robin D. G. Kelley, Sean Crisden
Thelonious Monk by Robin D. G. Kelley, Sean Crisden takes about 10 hours 47 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 47 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2008. 588 pages, about 161,700 words.
22 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 17 hours 58 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 47 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 44 minutes |
The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
His angular melodies and dissonant harmonies shook the jazz world to its foundations, ushering in the birth of "bebop" and establishing Monk as one of America's greatest composers. Yet throughout much of his life, his musical contribution took a backseat to tales of his reputed behavior. Writers tended to obsess over Monk's hats or his proclivity to dance on stage. To his fans, he was the ultimate hipster; to his detractors, he was temperamental, eccentric, taciturn, or childlike. Now, historian Robin D. G. Kelley brings to light a startlingly different Thelonious Monk- witty, intelligent, generous, politically engaged, brutally honest, and a devoted father and husband. This is the saga of an artist's struggle to "make it" without compromising his musical vision; a story that, like its subject, reflects the tidal ebbs and flows of American history in the twentieth century.--From publisher description.
Subjects: Biography, Jazz musicians, Jazz musicians, biography, Musicians, united states, Pianists, biography
