This month we celebrate the birthday of one of the truly unique personalities in jazz: Thelonious Monk. Born on October 10, 1917, Monk created a style of improvisation and a repertoire of compositions ...

Thelonious Sphere Monk is one of the true great jazz originals. As Minton's house pianist, Monk was entrenched as THE bebop pianist: At Minton's, with Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Kenny Clarke, and ...

What can you say about pianist Thelonious Monk? By the time these tracks were recorded, between '61 and '64, he had already amassed a body of work containing many tunes that had already become ...

It appears purely coincidental that Thelonious Monk’s posthumous Pulitzer Prize for music in 2006 came only two years before Bob Dylan was awarded a Pulitzer of his own. But these two very different ...

Is a document of an artist in the twilight of his career as vital as one that captures his prime? That’s the key question in “Thelonious Monk: Paris 1969,” a new DVD-CD combo that functions as a ...

Monk’s Music, originally recorded in 1957 and released in 1958 on Riverside, is now being reissued as part of Concord’s Jazz Classics Remasters series. The album, featuring a septet that includes dual ...

LEE — As the United States entered "The War to End All Wars" in 1917, America gave birth to four jazz greats who a century later remain the foundation for the music genre. On Saturday night, the jazz ...