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In 1968, a teen got Thelonious Monk to play a concert at his high school. 50 years later, the recording set off a battle with ...
A bold, traveling tribute to Black culture and Thelonious Monk’s enduring legacy—where jazz meets visual art in the heart of TriBeCa.
Music Thelonious Himself Shines in Craft OJC Reissue — A Must-Have for Jazz Vinyl Collectors Craft Recordings reissues Thelonious Monk’s 1957 gem Thelonious Himself—vinyl collectors, skip the $300 OG ...
For the Scott Amendola-Ben Goldberg-Todd Sickafoose Trio, which plays at The Shedd on Wednesday, Oct. 23, the bridge offers creativity all its own. The trio, all long-term friends, took the bridge ...
Decades after it was first recorded, Thelonious Monk’s moody jazz standard—covered by musicians ranging from Dizzy Gillespie to Amy Winehouse—remains part of the core repertory for artists ...
Craft Recordings’ acclaimed Small Batch vinyl series returns with an audiophile pressing of Thelonious Monk’s Brilliant Corners. A landmark title in the pianist’s celebrated catalog, the 1957 album ...
The list of Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground Albums Ranked Worst to Best includes only studio albums, but a couple of live releases, both from 1974, are essential listens: Reed's Rock n Roll ...
It is not the live album of that same 1963 tour, Monk In Tokyo, released on Columbia Records. Yet, this same set was previously released as Thelonious Monk 1963 Japan, at various times, by various ...
Richard Brody writes about Alain Gomis’s “Rewind & Play,” a documentary that looks behind the scenes of a TV program featuring jazz performances by Thelonious Monk.
Those tracks became the bedrock of the 1967 debut album "The Velvet Underground & Nico"one of the most jarring and influential albums in rock music. The monophonic reel-to-reel quarter-inch tapes ...
“This is an exciting opportunity to celebrate the Velvet Underground and the beginning of their relationship with Warhol, as their original manager, producer and cover designer of the iconic ...