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 ...

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 ...

Thelonious Monk was such a genius musician that anything he recorded is worth having. That said, some of his recordings are more significant than others. His Blue Note discs are most important, ...

We asked Jon Batiste, Arooj Aftab, Mary Halvorson and others to share their favorites. By Marcus J. Moore See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra más de nuestra cobertura en los ...

Thelonious Monk entered a long phase of introspection and cancelled his concert schedule after 1968 He disbanded his quartet with Charlie Rouse stopped recording for a while and only performed ...

How much Monk is too much? Jazz fetishists like myself, collectors of all the great and almost-great sessions by the Spheroid One we can find, might think of resisting yet another reissue from his ...

This is the first of what promises to be a great series of unreleased Monk recordings that have been bootlegged over the years. This set is actually two concerts -- a CD of a 1965 show in Paris and a ...

FOR almost two decades, the composer and pianist Thelonious Monk has been carefully and slowly constructing a witty, indivisible, and totally original world, which, all in all, represents possibly the ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. A black and white silver gelatin ...

A rare recording of Monk’s 1968 concert was shaping up to be one of the most exciting from-the-vaults musical releases of 2020…until it fell into legal limbo. An eccentric jazz master. An ambitious ...