
Thelonious Monk’s Recently Unearthed ‘Palo Alto’ Is a Stellar Posthumous Live Set
With a backstory as exhilarating as the music itself, a Thelonious Monk concert recorded at a California high school in 1968 is a rare treat for jazz fans.
With a backstory as exhilarating as the music itself, a Thelonious Monk concert recorded at a California high school in 1968 is a rare treat for jazz fans.
Every composition by jazz composer and pianist Thelonious Monk as interpreted by a pianist with a quartet that can do just about anything.
Jazz organist Gregory Lewis takes the compositions of Thelonious Monk around his Hammond for the fourth time, and it's still groovy.
In 2017, the music world saw amazing reissues from all over the genre map, spanning rock titans to indie upstarts and jazz to soul.
Five early, groundbreaking LPs by the legendary Thelonious Monk have been assembled as part of a sumptuous new box set.
Roswell Rudd, ailing from cancer at 82, releases a loving quartet record of standards with collaborators as distinctive as he is.
The everywhere-at-once trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith goes it alone, alternating Monk tunes and Monk-inspired originals for solo trumpet. S L O W.