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 ...

over the course of one day. Backing the co-leaders on this date are Wynton Kelly on piano, Percy Heath on bass, and Art Blakey on drums. The original vinyl release contained seven cuts, expanded on ...

Thelonious Monk: Misterioso Recorded live in 1958 at the Five Spot Caf in New York, Misterioso is one of two albums to emerge from the Five Spot dates — the other being Thelonious in Action — that ...

This week, I had pleasure of welcoming John Beasleyto KCRW’s studios to talk about his cool new project, Monk’estra Vol. 1, which celebrates the music of Thelonious Sphere Monk. Monk, like Charlie ...

After seeing what a dazzling parade of talent a Los Angeles-based show could attract last October, the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz put on another starry gala concert in the Kodak Theater on ...

With the bassist Carlos Henriquez serving as musical director, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra offers 10 Monk tunes — both famous and relatively obscure — in the Afro-Latin style. Carlos ...

SAN FRANCISCO - With his songs characterized by melodic dissonance and playful rhythmic and improvisational nature, Thelonious Monk helped define the challenging, almost rebellious, nature of jazz ...

Craft Recordings have announced the first reissues of 2025 from Original Jazz Classics, the series that revisits seminal and rare jazz albums celebrated by critics and aficionados alike. The latest ...

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 ...

Craft Recordings reissues Thelonious Monk’s 1957 gem Thelonious Himself—vinyl collectors, skip the $300 OG and grab this audiophile stunner instead. Before diving into the many reasons why you should ...

With his songs characterized by melodic dissonance and playful rhythmic and improvisational nature, Thelonious Monk helped define the challenging, almost rebellious, nature of jazz music during the ...

There’s a story, possibly apocryphal, about Thelonious Monk and his 1956 composition “Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues-Are.” Supposedly, Monk performed the number at a club and afterward, a rather dignified ...