Is a document of an artist in the twilight of his career as vital as one that captures his prime? That’s the key question in “Thelonious Monk: Paris 1969,” a new DVD-CD combo that functions as a ...

Although critical accuracy and integrity are usually dependent on avoiding categorical endorsement and suggestions of purchase, there have to be some exceptions. In certain cases, this same integrity ...

Live archive release from the Jazz legend Thelonious Monk Paris 1969 is a fascinating and important latecareer document of the legendary Jazz pianist and composer in performance with his Quartet at ...

Tuesday, Oct. 10, is the centenary of the birth of Thelonious Monk, the singular jazz pianist and composer whose influence has only grown since his 1982 death. It is also the birthday of Vernon Duke ...

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 ...

The pianist's first visit to France and the 3,000-seat Salle Pleyel concert hall ended in disaster. Fifteen years later, after he became an... In the early summer of 1954, Thelonious Monk traveled to ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. By 1969, the great jazz pianist Thelonious Monk was in many ways past his creative ...

On July 27, 1959, Thelonious Monk entered Nola Penthouse Studios on Manhattan's 57th Street for a recording session. He was wearing a very strange hat. This was often the case; the enigmatic jazz ...

Few things in jazz can possibly be better than previously unheard sets by late jazz greats. When that music comes from of the very spirit of jazz, Thelonious Monk, it is time for consideration and ...

Is a document of an artist in the twilight of his career as vital as one that captures his prime? That’s the key question in “Thelonious Monk: Paris 1969,” a new DVD-CD combo that functions as a ...

These are glory days for fans of Thelonious Monk. Columbia is reissuing material from the pianist’s late-life commercial heyday in the 1960s. There’s Solo Monk, for instance, with additional tunes and ...

There’s an old story that’s long circulated about Thelonious Monk’s wife Nellie walking into a jazz shop in lower Manhattan, eyeing a box of bootleg Monk records, glancing at the shop owner and then ...