[求助]GWD-17-1

modest

Thelonious Monk, who was a jazz pianist and composer, produced a body of work both rooted in the stride-piano tradition of Willie (The Lion) Smith and Duke Ellington, yet in many ways he stood apart from the mainstream jazz repertory.

Thelonious Monk, who was a jazz pianist and composer, produced a body of work both rooted

Thelonious Monk, the jazz pianist and composer, produced a body of work that was rooted both

Jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk, who produced a body of work rooted

Jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk produced a body of work that was rooted

Jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk produced a body of work rooted both

key

how to use "both"?

crystal2003

both A and B, A and B should satisfy the parellelism.

In this sentence, you should use both this way: both in the tride-piano tradition of Willie Smith and in that of Duke Ellington. But if you use it like this, the sentence is wordy, in fact both is no need here.   

modest

i get it. thanks