Monday, April 9 2012

Jazz’s Wizard of Wit—and Much More—Dave Frishberg

By Will Layman

Pianist, singer and songwriter Dave Frishberg, something of a cracked lovechild of Stephen Sondheim and Woody Allen's, is a too-little known miracle. The writer of hip ditties like "Peel Me a Grape" is also much more.

Friday, October 21 2011

Ali Jackson Trio with John Faddis: 18 October 2011 - New York

By Thomas Hauner

The Ali Jackson Trio celebrates Dizzy Gillespie's birthday this week at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola at Jazz at Lincoln Center with the help of some special guests.

Friday, July 8 2011

Thelonious Monk: Monk’s Music

By John Garratt

No matter how many times it gets reissued, a great album is still a great album. Monk's Music will never sound anything short of terrific.

Tuesday, March 15 2011

Bud Powell: Un Poco Loco

By Zachary Williams

In between stays at mental institutions for schizophrenia, Powell left behind a remarkable legacy. Sadly, he hasn’t received the same widespread admiration that his close friend Thelonious Monk secured. But to true fans of the jazz genre, Powell is revered.

Thelonious Monk: The Definitive Thelonious Monk on Prestige & Riverside

By Ben Child

A fine overview, but given the breadth of the artist's Riverside and Prestige catalogs, it's hard to shake the sense that this collection conceals at least as much as it reveals

Friday, February 12 2010

Always Know; Monk Always

By Vince Carducci

Conspicuously absent from PM’s list of the best nonfiction for 2009 is Robin D. G. Kelly’s comprehensive biography of the high priest of bop, Thelonious Sphere Monk.

Friday, December 19 2008

The Music of Thelonious Monk - Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Marcus Roberts

By Thomas Hauner

Though jazz is equally, if not more, fundamental to the American psyche as baseball, we, unfortunately, don’t pay our dues as devoutly as to those on the diamond.

Monday, December 3 2007

Thelonious Monk: Live at the 1964 Monterey Jazz Festival

By Will Layman

The vintage, never-before-released outing from the a high point of Monk's career

Friday, October 5 2007

Thelonious Monk: Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington

By Sean Murphy

Monk, after a while, begins to remind you of a wily raconteur, retelling a funny story that you’ve never heard before.

Friday, December 8 2006

Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane: The Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings

By Will Layman

The classic studio meetings between Monk (teacher) and Coltrane (student), still tantalizing and uneven.