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 ...

Drummer Chuck Bernstein, pianist Si Perkoff and bassist Sam Bevan —collectively known as Monk's Music Trio—have been playing the music of Thelonious Monk at the Simple Pleasures Café in San Francisco ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Thelonious Monk’s best-known composition, “’Round Midnight,” was first recorded 80 years ago this month. His slow, moody ballad ranks as among his finest work and one of the most enduring in jazz.

Joined by Amanda Gardier (saxophone), Jesse Wittman (bass), and trading off between drummers Cassius Goens III and Chris Parker, the quartet paid tribute to the timeless and, confirmed by Ballantine, ...

Troubled genius meets troubling system in the revealing, palpably tense archival documentary “Rewind & Play” from Senegalese French filmmaker Alain Gomis (“Félicité”). While doing research for a ...

T S MONK (Thelonious Monk III.) sat down with Black Enterprise Executive Editor-At-Large Alfred Edmond Jr. for an hour-long discussion on music, activism, and a whole lot more. T.S., the son of the ...