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 ...

Limited to 4,000 individually numbered copies worldwide, the latest Thelonious Monk vinyl reissue features all-analog, one-step mastering. Handpicked from Craft’s extensive catalog, each Small Batch ...

Monk’s first record for Columbia could be accused of being a safe bet since it features a selection of classic Monk tunes instead of new material. However, don’t dismiss it too quickly. On the ...

Craft Recordings Reissues Sought After 1957 Thelonious Monk Mono Mix In 180-gram Vinyl, All Analog Remastered Original Jazz Classics Series. Thelonious Monk’s, November 1957 release titled Monk’s ...

SAN FRANCISCO - With his songs characterized by melodic dissonance and playful rhythmic and improvisational nature, Thelonious Monk helped define the challenging, almost rebellious, nature of jazz ...

Jazz legend Thelonious Monk (1917-1982) was born on October 10, 1917. In honor of his birthday, we’re republishing John Swenson’s tribute to the late musician, printed in the June, 1982 issue of High ...

Years ago, screenwriter-producer Peter Lord Moreland watched Straight No Chaser, the landmark 1988 documentary on bebop pianist-composer Thelonious Monk. Thus began a near-obsessive fascination with ...

Thelonious Monk, pictured during a Paris performance in 1969, was one of the United States' most celebrated black musicians — Eleonore BAKHTADZE Half a century after jazz great Thelonious Monk ...

The summer of 1968 looked like the summer of 2020. Americans were in the streets protesting racism, among other things. And a high school student in Palo Alto, Calif., got in on the action by ...

Despite the steady paycheck, it wasn’t easy being a sideman for pianist-composer Thelonious Monk during his legendary late ’50s residency at Greenwich Village’s Five Spot, the “house that Monk built.” ...

Thelonious’ son T.S. Monk said, “There is no involvement by anyone in the Monk family with this project, and we actually condemn the effort." A planned biopic of jazz icon Thelonious Monk is in ...