For me, discovering Monk was like finding a hidden jazz club that only appears when the night is quiet enough. His music is strange, yes, but only because it’s honest. Every tune is a fingerprin ...

In 1964, Time put Monk on its magazine cover — the fourth jazz musician in history to appear there. Yet you can’t talk about Monk without acknowledging his erratic behavior. He had mental ...

Monk’s “contribution to American music and world music is inestimable,” commented noted jazz composer-pianist Muhal Richard Abrams, the Pulitzer music juror who proposed that Monk be ...

Now Monk has arrived at the summit of serious recognition he deservedall along, and his name is spoken with the quiet reverence that jazz itself has come to demand. His music is discussed in ...

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T S MONK (Thelonious Monk III.) sat down with Black Enterprise Executive Editor-At-Large Alfred Edmond Jr. for an hour-long discussion on music, activism, and a whole lot more. T.S., the son of ...

The big jazz record of 2005 was a concert recording by Thelonious Monk, who died in 1982. Before his death, few jazz musicians specialized in playing his tunes -- although there were exceptions ...