Swingin' in the monastery

Been working on this Thelonious Monk presentation, quite literally, for days. About to head to class in an hour or so and mash this jawn. Thoroughly boosted. To say this man was a genius is...reductive to say the least. Cat revolutionized the way we even think about how someone can potentially play the piano in their wildest dreams. Though Robin Kelley's Monk biography is painfully long, (clocking in at a little over 600 pages) I can't lie, reading this book has really influenced mt research on Black performers with disabilities. Both he and Nina Simone were diagonalized as bipolar, and I'm really curious about how present-day interlocutors of their work do, if at all, factor knowledge about their perceived difference into their listening/watching experience.
What is genius if not a deviation from how the mind "should" work? So many questions, so little time. See ya'll in a couple. Oceanogrpahy midterm on Wednesday. Not a joke, dude.