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Article: A Thelonius Monk Study Album.
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- September 1, 1995
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As every music librarian knows, jazz is an oral tradition, preserved and disseminated by the thoroughly twentieth-century technology of sound recording. Still, notation has its obvious advantages. As jazz continues to find its niche in music curricula, the demand will continue to grow for useful transcriptions of the music -- not to preserve it, but to facilitate its close study. It is this market toward which the "study albums" edited by British pianist and jazz educator Lionel Grigson are aimed.
Each of the three volumes is devoted to the music of a major jazz artist, providing a modest sampling (six transcriptions each for Louis Armstrong and Charlie Parker, ...
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