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Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original
by Larry Reni Thomas
Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original Robin D.G. Kelley Free Press ISBN: 0684831902 2009 Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original is a meticulously documented, yet easy-to-read chronicle of the roller coaster life of pianist and composer Thelonious Monk. It took Robin Kelley, ...
Jacksonville: Big City, Big Band, Big Plans
by Jack Bowers
Almost everyone who's even mildly interested knows that the big band scene in the US isn't what it used to be. On the other hand, the big bands aren't yet dead, as some alarmists have claimed, or even on life support. Thanks in part to college and armed services programs, there are perhaps as many or ...
Fulfilling what has been lacking...
by AAJ Staff
By Mickey Bass Jazz, as we once knew it, has become a thing of the past. For a lot of years clubs and promoters have been saying that this music is dead. My response to that statement is, “How can jazz be dead when its creators are still alive and well and creating?" ...
Helen Sung Takes the Stage at Encounter 09
Helen Sung, award winning jazz pianist, will perform at International Arts Movement’s Encounter 09, “Art in Action,” February 27, 2009 at Tribeca Performing Arts Center (Borough of Manhattan Community College), at 7:30 p.m. She will share the bill with former US Poet Laureate Billy Collins and painter Makoto Fujimura, former member of the National Council on ...
Jazz & Blues: A Tribute to B.B. King
by Jim Santella
Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz International Jazz Saxophone Competition and concert Kodak Theater Los Angeles, California October 26, 2008 As Poncho Sanchez opened the concert alone on stage with a serious chant aloud over his conga drums, the audience was reminded that jazz is composed of parts ...
T.S. Monk Sextet and Mingus Big Band Pay Tribute to Iconic Jazz Masters John Coltrane and Charles Mingus at the Kimmel Center as Part of the Mellon Jazz Fridays Series February 22
"[T.S. Monk is]...a first-rate drummer, unquenchably driving, and of the few who can keep the pulse swinging." --Variety “[Mingus Big Band] is digging into the repertoire of Charles Mingus...capturing the best parts of the Mingus legacy: the muscle, the affection for history, the willingness to take chances, the guts and soulfulness."--The New York Times T.S. Monk ...
Higher Ground
By T.S. Monk
Label: Thelonious Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Haristocracy 2. Girl Watchin' 3. Mosiac 4. Missing Line 5. Ladera Hieghts 6. 'Philly Twist 7.
Cubano Chant 8. Craw Daddy 9. Millennium Dance
T.S. Monk Speaks Out
by Franz A. Matzner
T.S. Monk is a voluble speaker. Which stands to reason since he is also an exceptionally engaged man. Not only does Monk have a new release due this August, Higher Ground , he will also launch his own label, Thelonious Records, open his father's archives, continue in his capacity as chairman of the Thelonious Monk Institute, ...
T.S. Monk: Higher Ground
by Franz A. Matzner
T.S. Monk's new album Higher Ground serves up a decidedly challenging musical concoction. With this release, Monk has not only solidified a highly personal sound, he has done something rare and infinitely appealing: he has created idiosyncratic, confounding music. Released in conjunction with the founding of Thelonious Records, and coinciding with the long ...
