Thelonious Monk News

The Nazareth Association is offering two $1,000 scholarships to undergraduates who will be juniors or seniors at Catholic colleges or universities in the 2010-2011 academic year.

With its wave-like glass canopy roof, the atrium gets a boost from 5 to 7 when the ten-piece Brad Linde Ensemble plays tunes by Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, and Lester Young.

Larry Goldings and Hans Groiner Double Bill & West Coast Premiere Saturday Nov 21, 2009 Vitello's Studio City Saturday Night, November 21st Austrian pianist and Thelonious Monk scholar, Hans Groiner, will play one set, followed by The Larry Goldings Quartet, Saturday November 21 from 8-11. Groiner, who will be making his west coast debut, says of ...

Randy Brecker served musical stints with everyone from Clark Terry and Charles Mingus to Blood, Sweat & Tears.

November 12, 2009 from WBGO - Wiqan Ang Miguel Zenon Quartet performs at Newport Jazz.

When Sandford Berman died of cancer in 1991 at 68, his dream of educating the region's youth about jazz and blues through the medium of television did not die with him - it just took an 18-year hiatus.

Yet the dynamics of the night and weekend courses offered inside the 5,000-square-foot near-east side Columbus facility are hardly pretentious.

Pianist Randy Ingram 's fine new recording, The Road Ahead , exemplifies smooth jazz, though thankfully not in the sense of the FM radio genre.

Film director Clint Eastwood's love of jazz and American popular song is far from a secret, especially following his feature-length biopic about alto saxophonist Charlie Parker , during which the ever restless Eastwood got the idea to produce a feature-length film about pianist Thelonious Monk , released somewhat later during the same year as ...

Jazz is a Romance language. It relies as much, if not more, on music already played and pondered over than that being performed right now, much less germinating in a musician's mind for the future.

Aretha Franklin: giving the Queen of Soul her propers Singer Aretha Franklin performs during the 85th annual Christmas tree lighting at the New York Stock Exchange December 4, 2008.

Dr. J's writing combines her love of jazz with her fascination with psychology; she enjoys focusing on where they intersect -- in the celebration of the individual spirit.

Festival Miami concluded with a swinging party Friday that brought jazz greats John Clayton and Jeff Hamilton to the Miami's Gusman Concert Hall stage.

In past columns, I've written about many local bands who were just starting their careers, trying to find the time and money to begin touring.

The bassist Ben Williams took several long solos in his first set at the Jazz Gallery on Thursday night, and each one felt more like an entitlement than an indulgence.

For decades, saxophonist Nick Brignola was the jazzman in the Capital Region. The winner of several prestigious Downbeat magazine awards, he passed away in 2002.

I am known at work for having a esoteric taste in music. Sharing an office with four other people in close proximity, I carve out my own little niche in the maelstrom by playing music as much as possible.

Valient Thorr singer "Valient Himself" has been known to shower the audience with a little rock-juice, flicking it about when not actively belting colloquial, clever lyrics about government conspiracies and being from Venus.

THELONIOUS MONK / "Classic Monk Mixtape" Source: Breath of Life - " 01 Classic Monk Mixtape.mp3 What fierceness tender touched us whenever Monk made music.

Thelonious Monk was alternately viewed as a genius who introduced new ideas to jazz or a hack who simply couldn't play well.