Gabriel Solis is Associate Professor of music, African American studies, and anthropology at the University of Illinois, where he also holds the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory Senior Fellowship for 2013-2015. He is the author of the books Monk's Music: Thelonious Monk and Jazz History in the Making (University of California Press, 2008), Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall (Oxford, 2014), and co-editor with Bruno Nettl of Musical Improvisation: Art, Education, Society (University of Illinois Press, 2009). His articles have appeared in Ethnomusicology, The Musical Quarterly, Popular Music and Society, and Critical Sociology, among others.