Thelonious Monk and I were in the same room at the same time just once, in the summer of 1968, at the Winston-Salem, North Carolina Coliseum, the first stop on a 21-city tour for a package show of ...

Forget the comic book heroes Batman, Spiderman and the Fantastic Four. I've been a member of an international force for good called "the guardians of the Thelonious Monk legacy. Our mission is to ...

The cover of this album is an interesting one. Was Monk’s sense of humor at work? Whatever the answer, the music that it contains is elevating. This expanded edition expiates the shortcomings of the ...

Columbia/Legacy Jazz's restoration of its catalog of albums by jazz legend Thelonious Monk will be extended next month with four additional titles. Due Aug. 19, each has been digitally remastered and… ...

February is Black History Month, which makes it a fine time to sit down and pour through Robin Kelley’s weighty new biography, “Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of An American Original.” Among a ...