The Jungles: Thelonious Monk and the Lost Cradle of Modern Jazz

A hidden history of twentieth-century American modernity that begins in a once-dynamic Black neighborhood in New York City with Thelonious Monk as its guiding star.

Set largely in the twelve-block area that would encompass Lincoln Center, The Jungles vibrantly reclaims the historic oasis that was once widely known as San Juan Hill, a hotbed of Black creative ferment with few artistic parallels in American cultural history. As best-selling author of Born in Blackness, Howard French reveals, t...