Monk’s place in the jazz scene has been grossly distorted as a result of high-powered publicity work. He has written a few attractive tunes, but his lack of technique prevents him from accomplishing ...

Epistrophy; Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues-Are; Evidence; Just A Gigolo; Blue Monk. At the time of this recording, Thelonious Monk was at both a creative and critical peak. He had recently signed with ...

Limited to 4,000 individually numbered copies worldwide, the latest Thelonious Monk vinyl reissue features all-analog, one-step mastering. Handpicked from Craft’s extensive catalog, each Small Batch ...

Thelonious Monk, who would have been 91 on Thursday, wrote many great songs. But a great many covers of his music wind up butchered by... Monk Tribute Albums That Aren't Terrible Monk Tribute Albums ...

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TRANSCRIPT: I’m Mark Rapp, and this is Rapp on Jazz. After his formative work with Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane embarked on ...

It appears purely coincidental that Thelonious Monk’s posthumous Pulitzer Prize for music in 2006 came only two years before Bob Dylan was awarded a Pulitzer of his own. But these two very different ...

You hum to a melody or tap your feet to a rhythm, then, in your mind’s eye, you take the leap of faith and cross the bridge of a pop song. The bridge is that section that connects other parts of the ...