His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.

When you’re composing music for a character named Thelonious “Monk” Ellison in the movie American Fiction, it should be pretty obvious where a composer like Laura Karpman might find her inspiration.

When Laura Karpman was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Music Branch in 2015, on the heels of cofounding the Alliance for Women Film Composers, she was the first female ...

EXCLUSIVE: Laura Karpman was drip-fed jazz notes when she was a baby. Her mother’s turn-table featured a playlist that included Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Wes Montgomery and Thelonious Monk, the ...

Robin D.G. Kelley's newest book is Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original. In focusing on the career of the eccentric jazz pianist and composer, Kelley reveals new details about ...

A book signing, conversation, and music performance with Robin D.G. Kelley (University of Southern California) and composer/pianist Randy Weston. Prize-winning historian Robin Kelley will discuss his ...

This post was updated March 10 at 8:21 p.m. Unlike Thelonious Ellison, Laura Karpman wants to be recognized for her acclaimed composition. The composer, who was previously a lecturer at the UCLA ...

Laura Karpman is one of very few composers who has made a genuine difference in the scoring community. A five-time Emmy winner, she co-founded the Alliance for Women Film Composers, which is widely ...

"...[A] breath of fresh air amongst the biographies of our legendary jazz musicians. This book is thorough, detailed and written with a true affinity for Monk's ...