A first-rate addition to understanding Monk, his music, and the broader issues of legacies in jazz is fresh from the publisher. Thelonious Monk (1917-1982) was one of jazz's greatest and most ...

Over the years, Thelonious Monk has resided in our collective minds and hearts like the extra-terrestrial "E.T." or Holden Caulfield from Catcher in the Rye, or some such alien figure whom we don't ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) There’s something about Thelonious Monk that grabs you—not with force, but with curiosity. You lean in when he plays, like someone telling a ...

The jazz legend would have turned 100 today. Critic Kevin Whitehead says Monk's music is "universally beloved, by jazz musicians across the stylistic spectrum who might agree about little else." GROSS ...

Last year, the world celebrated the centennial of Thelonious Monk, whose music — at this late date — still sounds remarkably fresh and utterly original. One hesitates to make hard-and-fast judgments ...

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 ...

In its first stop on a U.S. tour, the Orlando Consort returns to St. Mary Catholic Church in Littleton to do what it does best: sing early music in a compelling, contemporary way. “We’ll be performing ...