There is certainly no shortage of Thelonious Monk live albums—there are several dozen, in fact—but not too many such recordings have been rescued from a skip, as seems to be the case with this ...

Ask any group of even token jazz fans who the best composer is in the history of the medium, and a series of hearty cries will go up for Duke Ellington. But are we being wayward if we suggest that ...

In the lengthy liner notes that introduce the new three-disc collection Thelonious Monk: The Columbia Years, jazz pundit Peter Keepnews is oddly apologetic about the music included in the anthology, ...

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 ...

Thelonious Monk was such a genius musician that anything he recorded is worth having. That said, some of his recordings are more significant than others. His Blue Note discs are most important, ...

How much Monk is too much? Jazz fetishists like myself, collectors of all the great and almost-great sessions by the Spheroid One we can find, might think of resisting yet another reissue from his ...

Columbia/Legacy Jazz's restoration of its catalog of albums by jazz legend Thelonious Monk will be extended next month with four additional titles. Due Aug. 19, each has been digitally remastered and… ...

A rummage through the racks at Jazzworld in Melbourne Plaza, in Central, last week turned up some interesting things - as the exercise often does. Which is why I can't afford to drop by there too ...

FOR almost two decades, the composer and pianist Thelonious Monk has been carefully and slowly constructing a witty, indivisible, and totally original world, which, all in all, represents possibly the ...

Usually Monk walked. He ambled across the city on feet as light as a tap-dancer. He weaved his way down block after block, whistling, humming, snapping his fingers. Monk liked to take different routes ...

Thelonious Monk was such a genius musician that anything he recorded is worth having. That said, some of his recordings are more significant than others. His Blue Note discs are most important, ...