I am always confused by what these music writers say about jazz, and I 've played jazz professionally--the idea of "harmonic homogeneity", for instance,isn't clear to me--and, though it is true that Monk's melodic phrasing was often different from bebop, it mitigated toward the older jazz style, excepting when he threw in the "wrong chords"--As to harmonies, he often used very straight stuff, like in "Blue Monk", which is just thirds--

I guess the thing is, Monk being one of the great progressive musicians, you can't generalize a lot about what he did, because he kept reworking things--