Another stone resurrection from the Swiss-based ezz-thetics label, Celebrating 75 Years Of His First Recordings Revisited collects 23 of the tracks Thelonious Monk recorded for Blue Note between 1947 ...

Only with hindsight can it be ascertained that 1959 marked the pinnacle of jazz music as a cultural force in the United States. In 1959, the Mount Rushmore presidents of jazz were recording their ...

The greatest lost concert in American history almost never happened at all. It was Oct. 27, 1968, in Palo Alto, California. Outside of his high school, Danny Scher, a 16-year-old, bushy-haired, ...

You hum to a melody or tap your feet to a rhythm, then, in your mind’s eye, you take the leap of faith and cross the bridge of a pop song. The bridge is that section that connects other parts of the ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. If Thelonious Monk had stuck around for a metaphorical third set, he’d ...

(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 ...

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 ...

Alain Gomis’s documentary uses rushes from a 1969 French TV interview to make a smart indictment of music industry bias and offer viewers a subtle tribute to Monk. By Lisa Kennedy When you purchase a ...