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

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.

Robin D.G. Kelley's new book, Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original, ... It reveals new details about Monk's life, music and mental health problems, ...

Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original shows that despite years of poverty, arrests, jails, mental institutions and ridicule, Monk made the right choice—but it also suggests that ...

Thelonious Monk: Palo Alto album review by Mike Jurkovic, published on September 18, 2020. ... for any number of mental, health, and personal reasons, of just letting it ride through the late 60's, ...

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 ...

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 Posted March 1, 2010 ...

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 ...

New York pianist Thelonious Monk spent a month in California in 1959. In Los Angeles, he played at the Hollywood Bowl, and his wife Nellie was hospitalized with gastrointestinal problems.

Yasiin Bey will portray jazz piano legend Thelonious Monk in the biopic “Thelonious,” which is slated to begin production in summer 2022. Plus Icon Film Plus Icon TV ...

Yasiin Bey will portray jazz piano legend Thelonious Monk in the biopic “Thelonious,” which is slated to begin production in summer 2022. Plus Icon Film Plus Icon TV ...