Monk’s Music is the session where Thelonious famously told a frustrated Coltrane and Hawkins that, given the talent between the two of them, they should certainly be able to figure out how to handle ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thelonious Monk playing the Monterey Jazz Festival in 1964. The greatest lost concert in American history almost never happened at ...

We asked Jon Batiste, Arooj Aftab, Mary Halvorson and others to share their favorites. By Marcus J. Moore For over a year, The New York Times has been asking musicians, writers and scholars to share ...

If you are familiar with John Beasley's MONK'estra, then you may understand my excitement level at the prospects of seeing and hearing his music in a live show. The brilliance of Thelonious Monk's ...

Usually Monk walked. He ambled across the city on feet as light as a tap-dancer. He weaved his way down block after block, whistling, humming, snapping his fingers. Monk liked to take different routes ...

Craft Recordings Reissues Sought After 1957 Thelonious Monk Mono Mix In 180-gram Vinyl, All Analog Remastered Original Jazz Classics Series. Thelonious Monk’s, November 1957 release titled Monk’s ...

There’s a documentary coming to PBS’s Afro-Pop: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange on May 1 that features a re-emerged 1969 French interview with Thelonius Monk produced for State TV. Titled Rewind & Play ...

Tokyo Record Bar partners with the Thelonious Monk Estate to celebrate the jazz icon’s heavenly 108th birthday with a three-night immersive experience, October 8–10. Guests will enjoy music, art, and ...

The premise of Alain Gomis’s “Rewind & Play” is as exciting as the film itself. While doing research for a fictional film about Thelonious Monk, Gomis gained access to the rushes—the unedited raw ...

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 ...

Thelonious Monk was one of the greatest jazz pianists and composers in history. Thelonious Monk was born in Rocky Mount and moved to New York City as a child. In the following years, Monk rose to fame ...