Ben Franklin reported in his autobiography that he once spent the better part of a day sharpening an old ax, determined to return it to its original luster. He finally gave up, concluding that perhaps ...

This month we celebrate the birthday of one of the truly unique personalities in jazz: Thelonious Monk. Born on October 10, 1917, Monk created a style of improvisation and a repertoire of compositions ...

The Concord Music Group has been reissuing classic jazz albums via their Original Jazz Classics Remasters Series for several years. Three new titles are joining the stellar lineup of past releases: ...

NEW HAVEN >> How about a hand (or jazz hands) for the Monk family, which not only brings in accomplished drummer-composer T.S. Monk for its annual Thelonious Sphere Monk Weekend, but is starting a ...

It’s a cliché of modernism that one generation’s avant-garde assimilates into the next generation’s mainstream. But seven decades after Thelonious Monk helped lay the foundation for modern jazz, he ...

You hum to a melody or tap your feet to a rhythm, then, in your mind’s eye, you take the leap of faith and cross the bridge of a pop song. The bridge is that section that connects other parts of the ...

It was a Thelonious Monk composition — the elegant and wistful ballad "'Round Midnight" — that first made Joey Alexander a topic of conversation. Specifically, it was his performance of the song at a ...

Thelonious Monk, the incomparably influential jazz composer and pianist, would have turned 100 today, and across the country a healthy range of commemorative tributes is already underway. But the ...