Thelonious Monk was one of the great eccentrics of jazz music. Beyond the funny hats, beyond his tendency to indiscriminately bash away at his piano, was the inimitable sense of melody and ...

What are the first two names that come to mind on reading the phrase 'Thelonious Monk's saxophonist'? Chances are they will be John Coltrane or Charlie Rouse. The runner-up could be Sonny Rollins and ...

This past January, Library of Congress jazz specialist Larry Appelbaum stumbled onto the sole full-length professional recording of a November 1957 collaboration between bebop’s high priest Thelonious ...

Thelonious Monk in Paris 1967 gets its first official vinyl release with Rudy Van Gelder mastering, superb sound and an expanded nonet. In the Thelonious Monk universe, I’ve noticed over the years a ...

As far as jazz fans are concerned, Ira Gitler’s liner notes don’t exaggerate when he compares the recent discovery of a recorded 1945 Gillespie-Parker concert to the unearthing of Tutankhamen’s tomb ...

LOOKING BACK at the quartet that played the Five Spot for all those weeks during the fall of 1957, it seems clear it was a summit of giants, a chance intersection of jazz gods. “The Thelonious Monk ...

JAZZ There is something poignant and a bit sad that the most awaited jazz disc in a decade was recorded 48 years ago, featuring players who are now all dead. So here “At Carnegie Hall” is, with Monk’s ...

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 ...