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Tag: Thelonious Monk
Vinyl is back! Each month on “Vinyl Watch,” we list some of the most noteworthy……...
Like many recording projects slated for 2020, pianist Miki Yamanaka’s fourth session as a leader……...
Call me nerdy or OCD, but I get aggravated at movies that botch locations imprinted……...
Jazz lovers have great taste — and high standards — which can make them difficult…
Jazz history offers an endless array of stories to tell, from the outsized characters who’ve……...
The first two releases from pianist John Beasley’s MONK’estra were all about affirming the continued……...
John Beasley is a Grammy-nominated pianist, composer, arranger, conductor and musical director. He was the…
The first time most people caught a glimpse of musician and producer Don Was, he……...
T.S. Monk is a jazz drummer, composer and bandleader. He is the son of jazz…
Jazz piano icon Chick Corea has performed in nearly every permutation of band, orchestra, trio,…
A previously unheard concert by pianist Thelonious Monk and an all-star quartet — recorded in a high school auditorium in Palo Alto, California, in 1968 — will see the light of day on July 31, courtesy of a forthcoming release by Impulse! Records. The album, simply titled Palo Alto, marks the jazz legend’s posthumous debut on the label.
A lesser-known entry in the Thelonious Monk canon, “Stuffy Turkey” is one of the few…
Thanksgiving is a time to be grateful for the good things in our lives. If you’re…
On this day (October 15) in 1947, pianist Thelonious Monk pressed his first recordings as…
Thelonious Monk, the visionary jazz pianists whose elegantly simple compositions and idiosyncratic harmonies made him…
Eighty years ago, a German immigrant and passionate jazz fan named Alfred Lion produced his…
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August 17, 2019, marked the 60th anniversary of the release of Miles Davis’ Kind of…
Cootie Williams recorded the first version of Thelonious Monk’s “Round Midnight” on August 22, 1944. …