When it was first released in autumn 2004, Tony Kofi's Plays Monk: All Is Know (as it was then titled) was the saxophonist's first release as leader, a full thirteen years after his emergence with ...

Epistrophy; Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues-Are; Evidence; Just A Gigolo; Blue Monk. At the time of this recording, Thelonious Monk was at both a creative and critical peak. He had recently signed with ...

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 ...

Billed under the auspicious title “Thanksgiving Jazz,” this crate-digging find must’ve felt like gold to Larry Appelbaum. In January 2005 the Library of Congress Recording Labs supervisor unearthed ...

Few jazz composers or pianists have had as deep an effect on the form as Thelonious Monk. The North Carolina-born musician built his sound around a fundamental tension between tradition and modernity, ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. BRATTLEBORO >> On Saturday, Jan. 17, The Vermont Jazz Center will present drummer Clarence Penn in concert with his quartet, Penn Station, performing ...

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 ...

There’s a story, possibly apocryphal, about Thelonious Monk and his 1956 composition “Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues-Are.” Supposedly, Monk performed the number at a club and afterward, a rather dignified ...

The cover art for Monk’s “Palo Alto” live album, recorded live at Palo Alto High School in 1968. Courtesy Impulse! Records. San Francisco and Hackensack, New Jersey, are two locations immortalized by ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. "ETHEL is thrilled and honored to share the Carnegie Hall stage with our longtime ...

Walk into any jazz room, anywhere on Earth, on any night, and you’ll probably hear a keyboardist copping McCoy Tyner’s licks and tricks. Even though the piano player, who died Friday at 81, played in ...