Jazz Articles about Dave Zoller

Dave Zoller: Evidence - Music of Thelonious Monk

by Patrick Burnette
November 27, 2017

Younger readers may not believe this, but there was a time when all-Thelonious Monk tribute albums were a rarity. During most of Monk's lifetime, musicians focused on a few of his best-known tunes ("Round Midnight" was--and remains-- the obvious favorite). But then Steve Lacy, Roswell Rudd, and other champions of Monk began to devote whole albums to his music and countless jazz musicians have followed in their wake. Now Monk may be the central composer in the jazz canon. Everybody ...