The International Festival of Arts & Ideas will bring a little bit of history to New Haven this week, when the gifted prodigy pianist Jason Moran presents "In My Mind," a multimedia performance piece ...

Yasiin Bey has signed on to play what might be his most challenging acting role to date – portraying legendary jazz artists Thelonious Monk! Thelonious will center around the piano players ...

SAN FRANCISCO - With his songs characterized by melodic dissonance and playful rhythmic and improvisational nature, Thelonious Monk helped define the challenging, almost rebellious, nature of jazz ...

Actor Rome Neal will portray jazz legend Thelonious Monk in a one-man play during a two-day celebration of Black History Month at the ProArts Playhouse in Kihei that will also include a concert of ...

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 ...

Italian composer and pianist Stefano Travaglini advanced his standing in the crowded field of solo piano improvisers with Ellipse (Notami Jazz, 2017). That album of (mostly) extemporaneous creations ...

Thelonious Monk, pictured during a Paris performance in 1969, was one of the United States' most celebrated black musicians — Eleonore BAKHTADZE Half a century after jazz great Thelonious Monk ...

The pianist and the drummer were born two years and one day apart. Nearly a century later, we consider both of them to be jazz legends, in part... Wednesday is the birthday anniversary of pianist and ...

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 then ...

In 1963, pianist Thelonius Monk released an album of live music called “Live at the Village Gate.” A year earlier, Nina Simone released a similarly titled album. The piano both Monk and Simone played ...

Stick your head into any jazz club on any night and chances are good that be it lick, riff, or tune itself, someone will be referencing Monk. More than Miles, more than Duke, Monk remains central to ...