Robin D.G. Kelley spent 14 years on a new book, which some are calling the definitive work on a jazz legend. In Thelonious Monk: The Life and... Biographer Robin D.G. Kelley wants to clear the air ...

Tuesday, Oct. 10 is the centennial of one Thelonious Sphere Monk. One of the all-time great jazz innovators, Monk was exceptionally gifted as a pianist and as a composer. When you hear a Monk song, ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

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, ...

Even his name was one of a kind. Before Monk came along, no one played piano like him. His elliptical approach to melody and often abrupt, percussive style created suspense and humor on the bandstand, ...

This comprehensive study of the noted jazz pianist and composer is a revised edition of a book first published in Germany in 1987. It is divided into three sections: a biography of Monk (1917-1982); ...

Mulligan Meets Monk captures one of the most improbable encounters in jazz, one artist the standard bearer for the conservative cool school, the other a peddler of a more liberal style of jazz. Both ...

For Thelonious Monk's 108th Birthday, we look back at the sparsely documented collaboration of the eccentric pianist and ...

NEW HAVEN >> How about a hand (or jazz hands) for the Monk family, which not only brings in accomplished drummer-composer T.S. Monk for its annual Thelonious Sphere Monk Weekend, but is starting a ...

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