The jazz giant Thelonious Monk was an elusive personality even to those who knew him. In her 1988 documentary Thelonious Monk Straight, No Chaser, director Charlotte Zwerin presents both the artist ...

We asked Jon Batiste, Arooj Aftab, Mary Halvorson and others to share their favorites. By Marcus J. Moore For over a year, The New York Times has been asking musicians, writers and scholars to share ...

Thelonious’ son T.S. Monk said, “There is no involvement by anyone in the Monk family with this project, and we actually condemn the effort." A planned biopic of jazz icon Thelonious Monk is in ...

Thelonious Monk, the incomparably influential jazz composer and pianist, would have turned 100 today, and across the country a healthy range of commemorative tributes is already underway. But the ...

CD 1: Thelonious; Light Blue; Played Twice; Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues-Are; Ask Me Now; Humph; Bright Mississippi; Reflections; Bemsha Swing; Teo; Blue Sphere. CD 2 ...

Featuring John Coltrane, Art Blakey, and Coleman Hawkins, Monk’s Music was the world’s introduction to the pianist’s most famous songs. It helped define the future of jazz and the mind of Monk. Save ...