I’ve been exploring problems associated with mental health care in Minnesota. But there’s something in the story that’s missing, perhaps the most important thing of all: hope," Aaron Brown writes.

In 1968, a 16-year-old kid booked the jazz legend to perform at his high school. More than five decades later, a forgotten ...

It reveals new details about Monk's life, music and mental health problems, and provides a glimpse into the New York jazz scene of the mid-twentieth century.

And, like Bolden, who was committed to an insane asylum in 1907, Monk had mental-health issues. In Clint Eastwood’s 1988 documentary, Thelonious Monk: Straight No Chaser, Monk’s son, T.S. Monk ...

Legendary jazz pianist Thelonious Monk was known as a man of few words, who spoke through the music he composed and played. But rare audio recordings in a new documentary reveal something different… ...

He preferred to work and enjoy his celebrity status. Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original shows that despite years of poverty, arrests, jails, mental institutions and ridicule, ...

Thelonious Monk---Bebop Pioneer, and Bipolar?LS: As a historian, how did you tease out mental illness from addiction and from his essential rebel nature? RK: This was difficult. First, I had to ...

Yet Monk’s own interpretations—especially the 1957 Thelonious Himself version—still carry unmatched emotional gravity. They cut deeper, lingering longer in the listener’s soul.

Earth-shattering? The best live Thelonious Monk recording ever? Who knows? Probably not. But it is Monk, so Palo Alto, comes to us with all the scholarly fandom brouhaha we accord these wonderful ...

Thelonious Monk was one of the greatest jazz pianists and composers in history.

Thelonious Monk---Bebop Pioneer, and Bipolar? My Interview with Professor Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk, The Life and Times of an American Original ...