Second in the series of Thelonious Monk releases produced by the his son, T.S. Monk, Monk Round the World presents seven live tracks of the seminal pianist performing in various European and U.S.

The late jazz legend Thelonious Monk performed at a high school in Palo Alto, CA in 1968, which was the idea of one of the school’s students and was recorded by the school’s janitor. The recordings, ...

Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews two new interpretations of Monk's complete works: Monk's Dreams, by pianist Frank Kimbrough, and Work, by guitarist Miles Okazaki. This is FRESH AIR. Two new ...

More than twenty years after his death, Monk remains something of a mystery — an innovative pianist and composer whose persona vacillated between genius and idiot savant. Monk ‘Round the World may not ...

Today marks the centennial of the birth of pianist Thelonious Monk (1917-82), one of the most idiosyncratic stylists and influential composers in the annals of jazz. His staggering output includes ...

In June, Impulse! Records announced the first-ever release of Thelonious Monk’s Palo Alto. The album features a recording of Monk’s historic concert at Palo Alto High School on October 27, 1968, with ...

I saw the name before I heard the music: "Thelonious Monk is God" scratched into the plywood panelling of a mysteriously antiquated railway carriage, as if the train were coming from out of the past ...

In 1968, high school student Danny Scher asked Thelonious Monk to come to his high school in Palo Alto, California. At the time, Monk was one of the most widely known and influential jazz musicians in ...

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 ...

What can you say about pianist Thelonious Monk? By the time these tracks were recorded, between '61 and '64, he had already amassed a body of work containing many tunes that had already become ...