Today marks the 90th birthday anniversary of Thelonious Monk. The jazz composer and pianist is remembered mainly for his time in New York, where he developed a unique, eccentric musical genius and a ...

The greatest lost concert in American history almost never happened at all. It was Oct. 27, 1968, in Palo Alto, California. Outside of his high school, Danny Scher, a 16-year-old, bushy-haired, ...

Composer Laura Karpman on how she created music to express the complex characters and ideas at the core of Cord Jefferson's sophisticated comedy. The way in which dialogue and score intertwine and ...

EXCLUSIVE: Laura Karpman was drip-fed jazz notes when she was a baby. Her mother’s turn-table featured a playlist that included Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Wes Montgomery and Thelonious Monk, the ...

T.S. Monk (born Thelonious Sphere Monk Jr.) is used to answering questions about his pop, bebop pianist/composer Thelonious Monk. The 54-year-old jazz drummer, vocalist, composer and record label ...

This post was updated March 10 at 8:21 p.m. Unlike Thelonious Ellison, Laura Karpman wants to be recognized for her acclaimed composition. The composer, who was previously a lecturer at the UCLA ...

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 ...

We asked Jon Batiste, Arooj Aftab, Mary Halvorson and others to share their favorites. By Marcus J. Moore Alain Gomis’s documentary uses rushes from a 1969 French TV interview to make a smart ...

FOR almost two decades, the composer and pianist Thelonious Monk has been carefully and slowly constructing a witty, indivisible, and totally original world, which, all in all, represents possibly the ...

In 1951, pianist and composer Thelonious Monk was pinched in a bogus arrest that resulted in him losing his Cabaret Card, necessary for performing in New York City clubs. While he scrambled for out of ...

He helped turn the Library of Congress into a leading center for research on the history of jazz, and made some surprising discoveries of his own. By Clay Risen Art Kane’s “Harlem 1958” gathered ...