These are glory days for fans of Thelonious Monk. Columbia is reissuing material from the pianist’s late-life commercial heyday in the 1960s. There’s Solo Monk, for instance, with additional tunes and ...

Is a document of an artist in the twilight of his career as vital as one that captures his prime? That’s the key question in “Thelonious Monk: Paris 1969,” a new DVD-CD combo that functions as a ...

The pianist's first visit to France and the 3,000-seat Salle Pleyel concert hall ended in disaster. Fifteen years later, after he became an... In the early summer of 1954, Thelonious Monk traveled to ...

Thelonious Monk entered a long phase of introspection and cancelled his concert schedule after 1968 He disbanded his quartet with Charlie Rouse stopped recording for a while and only performed ...

Live archive release from the Jazz legend Thelonious Monk Paris 1969 is a fascinating and important latecareer document of the legendary Jazz pianist and composer in performance with his Quartet at ...

Tuesday, Oct. 10, is the centenary of the birth of Thelonious Monk, the singular jazz pianist and composer whose influence has only grown since his 1982 death. It is also the birthday of Vernon Duke ...

We asked Jon Batiste, Arooj Aftab, Mary Halvorson and others to share their favorites. By Marcus J. Moore For over a year, The New York Times has been asking musicians, writers and scholars to share ...

Although critical accuracy and integrity are usually dependent on avoiding categorical endorsement and suggestions of purchase, there have to be some exceptions. In certain cases, this same integrity ...

Is a document of an artist in the twilight of his career as vital as one that captures his prime? That’s the key question in “Thelonious Monk: Paris 1969,” a new DVD-CD combo that functions as a ...