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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sometime between set one and set two, Thelonious Monk and his tenor saxophonist Charlie Rouse disappeared. Clearly, some industrial-strength pharmacology transpired during the intermission. Both ...

Monk only lent his talents to the film world once, and the soundtrack is finally being released in time for Record Store Day. Here he paints one... This Saturday is Record Store Day, and one of its ...

For some performers, the shadow of a famous parent is a weight, as they try to make a name for themselves. But for T.S. Monk, the life and work of his father, legendary jazz pianist and composer ...

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 ...

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SMOKE Jazz Club has announced a line-up to kickstart the New Year starting with the club debut of Joshua Redman leading his ...

Postmodern Jazz Quartet performed a lively jazz set on March 2, at Morgenstern’s Bookstore & Café Jazz Salon event. The performance featured music from Keith Jarrett’s album “Standards” which was a ...

He accompanied stars like John Coltrane and worked frequently with his brothers. “I’ve always thought I was a master,” he once said. Few disagreed. By Richard Sandomir Albert Heath, a virtuoso jazz ...

Jakob Bro’s Bill Frisell collaboration finally saw the light, Cécile McLorin Salvant drew on her teenage pop memories and Anthony Braxton looked back to 1985 ...