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Jazz and the Grape

The Thelonious Monk approach to wine
Posted: Mar 1, 2010 1:51pm ET

I just finished Robin D.G. Kelly's biography of jazz musician and composer Thelonious Monk, and Monk's transformation from weird outsider to elder statesman got me thinking about how that mirrors today's war over wine styles.

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