A university choir has revived music found hiding in plain sight in a book once used by monks at southern England's Buckland Abbey ...

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, ...

It appears purely coincidental that Thelonious Monk’s posthumous Pulitzer Prize for music in 2006 came only two years before Bob Dylan was awarded a Pulitzer of his own. But these two very different ...

With the bassist Carlos Henriquez serving as musical director, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra offers 10 Monk tunes — both famous and relatively obscure — in the Afro-Latin style. Carlos ...

It's good when it's possible to step out of a comfort zone to appreciate (if not love) unfamiliar styles. The same can be said of artists who break from instruments they're known for. Chuck Bernstein ...

If you are familiar with John Beasley's MONK'estra, then you may understand my excitement level at the prospects of seeing and hearing his music in a live show. The brilliance of Thelonious Monk's ...

During the heyday of bebop, jazz icon Thelonious Monk was known for his unusual hats, his vague oracle-like pronouncements and his innovative and percussive style at the piano. Born in North Carolina, ...

Sometime between set one and set two, Thelonious Monk and his tenor saxophonist Charlie Rouse disappeared. Clearly, some industrial-strength pharmacology transpired during the intermission. Both ...

One of the quiet revelations of "Meredith Monk: The Recordings" (ECM New Series) is that Monk herself confides that it was Janis Joplin who set her –and her voice– free. The 13-CD set chronicles the ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Meredith Monk’s wondrous new work, “Weave,” performed by the Los Angeles ...