In 1968, a 16-year-old kid booked the jazz legend to perform at his high school. More than five decades later, a forgotten ...

New York pianist Thelonious Monk spent a month in California in 1959. In Los Angeles, he played at the Hollywood Bowl, and his wife Nellie was hospitalized with gastrointestinal problems. Monk ...

In a celebration of Black History Month, Jazz Maui and Kihei’s ProArts Playhouse will host a concert and a one-man play paying special tribute to jazz legend Thelonious Monk. Pianist Tommy James ...

Half a century after jazz great Thelonious Monk appeared on a French television program, a new documentary revisits outtakes from the 1969 interview to cast light on the racism and exploitation of ...

Mr. Montgomery was born Jan. 30, 1930, in Indianapolis. His musical family also included his brother Thomas, who played the drums but died of pneumonia at 19, and a sister, Ervena, who played piano.

On Thursday, pianist and composer John Beasley, whose angular music and nimble playing has earned him fans from Miles Davis to Steely Dan, brings his Monk'estra band to Miner Auditorium at 7:30 p ...

OJC Piano Greatness: Thelonious Monk & Bill Evans . By C. Andrew Hovan June 30, 2025 View read count. Having been a source of quality reissues back when vinyl was still king, it is fitting that the ...

Monk Dreams, Hallucinations And Nightmares, the new large ensemble recording from Frank Carlberg (on Red Piano Records, February 10, 2017), draws its inspiration from the work of Thelonious Monk. The ...

New York pianist Thelonious Monk spent a month in California in 1959. In Los Angeles, he played at the Hollywood Bowl, and his wife Nellie was hospitalized with gastrointestinal problems. Monk ...

Monk -- who had stood up during the first set in Buffalo and done one of his odd little dances -- now sat at his piano bench rock still. As he soloed that night at the Royal Arms on West Utica ...

Thelonious Monk, the pianist and composer, created wry, angular melodies and unusual harmonic progressions that are among the most striking contributions to the jazz repertory. Although Mr. Monk's ...