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 ...

In the fall of 1969 the great French bebop pianist Henri Renaud brought Thelonious Monk into a television studio in Paris Just Monk a grand piano and two cameras no audience no sidemen no emcee no ...

As part of the series of recordings launching the Monterey Jazz Festival's new record label, this previously unreleased 1964 set by Thelonious Monk offers a glimpse of the maestro with an augmented ...

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, ...

We asked Jon Batiste, Arooj Aftab, Mary Halvorson and others to share their favorites. By Marcus J. Moore For over a year, The New York Times has been asking musicians, writers and scholars to share ...