Bay Area guitarist and composer John Schott will lead “’Round Midnight Reconsidered,” an all-night musical meditation celebrating Thelonious Monk’s iconic composition and paying respect to … Read More “John Schott Leads “’Round Midnight Reconsidered” Event on Shavout”
Flushing Town Hall in Queens, New York, marks 15 years of an annual tradition with its November 12 concert “NEA Jazz Masters: The Music of … Read More “Jimmy Owens Leads Tribute to Horace Silver and Thelonious Monk”
Thelonious Monk has not been missing from the recent bumper crop of archival jazz releases. His 1959 soundtrack recordings for Les Liaisons Dangereuses saw the … Read More “Newly Discovered Thelonious Monk Live Recording Due Out July 31”
The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz will change its name to the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz on January 1. The decision was made, the … Read More “Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz to Be Renamed After Herbie Hancock”
On June 9, Craft Recordings, a new imprint of Concord Music Group, will reissue Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane’s Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings as a deluxe … Read More “Complete Monk with Coltrane Sessions to be Reissued on Vinyl”
Coltrane, Monk, Kirk, Hubbard, Blakey and Johnny Griffin filmed live
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