T.S. Monk, who will play in Duluth at Weber Music Hall Friday, talks passionately about music and about jazz. In fact, he is bold about jazz, unlike what he perceives in some other musicians. He says ...

Here are two CDs that pay homage to the great composer-pianist Thelonious Monk (1917-1982), who passed away 25 years ago this month. Though both share a common composer, the recordings are quite ...

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 ...

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 ...

The late Thelonious Monk's time has come. The jazz concepts first spotted by the eccentric pianist back in the 1950s are ready to be fully explored by today's musicians. They have the advanced ...

With the bassist Carlos Henriquez serving as musical director, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra offers 10 Monk tunes — both famous and relatively obscure — in the Afro-Latin style. Carlos ...

Following its release in 1974, Who's Afraid of the Big Band Monk? was scorned by jazz fans and critics. The double album featured Thelonious Monk recorded in 1963 and 1968 with large ensembles. The ...