Finding a lost movie soundtrack by composer/pianist Thelonious Monk at this late date seems an improbable event, at the very least. But that is what we have here: previously unreleased performances ...

Blessed with the most wonderful birth name in American music, Thelonious Sphere Monk was one of the 20th century’s great artists of the piano and one of its enduring composers of jazz. He only ever ...

In 1959, the peak of his playing years, Thelonious Monk did something he’d never done before: record music for a film. Released in the U.S. as Dangerous Liaisons, the French film Les Liaisons ...

On July 27, 1959, Thelonious Monk entered Nola Penthouse Studios on Manhattan's 57th Street for a recording session. He was wearing a very strange hat. This was often the case; the enigmatic jazz ...

Few things are as infused with as much romance as are those thought lost. Take the entire myth of blues singer Robert Johnson. He produced 29 shellac sides in the late 1920s that had immeasurable ...