I have to look at this program when I have time to watch it.
Right now I am reading the biography, not of Monk,
but of his colleague Sonny Rollins (tenor saxophone).
Monk figures prominently in the Rollins story,
as they recorded together numerous times and were close friends.

There is a Thelonious Monk biography, written with
Nellie Monk's blessing before she passed,
and I will have to look that up as well.
A great deal more is understood, today,
about bipolar disorder, with which Monk was eventually diagnosed.
I expect the biography will try to set the record straight
about some of the stories, rumors or otherwise, about Monk.