Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes

History of the avant-garde jazz pioneers is surprisingly lacking in innovation

"...what they liked, and thankfully, they had good taste: Thelonious Monk, Lee Morgan, and John Coltrane are just a..."

July 19, 2019 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Ginger & Rosa

The personal becomes political in Sally Potter's story about a girl who comes of age in England during the early Sixties.

"...into the part, while the jazz soundtrack (John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Sidney Bechet) rouses this sensitive film from its..."

April 12, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original

Not-so-crazy pianism

"...Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Originalby..."

Dec. 4, 2009 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

Slouching Towards Gomorrah

At the Intersection of Jazz and Lounge

"...At Cedar Street you can enjoy a Thelonious Monk any night of the week. No, not the..."

June 6, 1997 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Dexter Gordon

Reissues

"...Thelonious MonkStraight No Chaser (Columbia/Legacy)Charlie ParkerBird (Columbia/Legacy)Dexter GordonRound Midnight (Columbia/Legacy)..."

June 21, 2002 Music Review by Harvey Pekar

Thelonious Monk

"...Thelonious MonkThe Complete Prestige Recordings (Prestige) The music of pianist/composer..."

Dec. 8, 2000 Music Review by Harvey Pekar

Thelonious Monk

"...Thelonious Monk The Columbia Years, 1962-1968(Columbia/Legacy), Monk in Tokyo (Columbia/Legacy),..."

July 13, 2001 Music Review by Harvey Pekar

Ellington, Mingus, Monk

Complete catalogs trump career overviews

"...Complete Columbia & RCA Albums Collection (Sony Music) The Thelonious Monk QuartetThe Complete Columbia Studio Albums Collection (Sony Music)..."

Dec. 14, 2012 Music Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

Dizzy Gillespie/Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk Quartet, and John Coltrane

Gift guide

"...Town Hall, New York City, June 22, 1945 (Uptown)Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall..."

Dec. 16, 2005 Music Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

Identifying the Impulse

"...players of the day, including two formidable piano talents, Thelonious Monk and Bud Powell...."

Dec. 18, 1998 Music Feature by Jeff Mccord

Austin Jazz Workshop

"...sixth album is a timely celebration of idiosyncratic pianist/composer Thelonious Monk in this year of his birth centennial. Rather..."

May 26, 2017 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

Was It Good for You?

The year in books

"...Thelonious Monk was the first jazz musician to really capture..."

Jan. 1, 2010 Books Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

Jazz Sides

Naxos' latest Jazz Icons series has arrived

"...Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday (EuroArts/Lower 5th) Thelonious MonkAmerican Composer (EuroArts/Lower 5th) Count BasieSwingin' the Blues (EuroArts/Lower..."

Dec. 3, 2010 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

Bare Necessities

Tenor titan Sonny Rollins still peeling bark

"...Do you miss your old running buddies, Clifford Brown, Thelonious Monk?..."

May 1, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Complete Freedom

A profile of Bad Livers banjo player Danny Barnes

"...guy, Buehl Niedlinger. This guy played with Cecil Taylor, Thelonious Monk, Igor Stravinski. He's done everything that you can..."

Nov. 5, 1999 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Steve Lacy 3 N.Y. Capers & Quirks (hatOLOGY)
Steve Lacy Trio The Rent (Cavity Search)
Steve Lacy/Roswell Rudd Monk's Dream (Verve)

"...& Quirks (hatOLOGY)Steve Lacy TrioThe Rent (Cavity Search)Steve Lacy/Roswell RuddMonk's Dream (Verve) In the early Sixties, while still a..."

June 2, 2000 Music Review by Jeff Mccord

Against the Grain

A profile of Bad Livers bassist Mark Rubin

"...which skipped over their original material and covers of Thelonious Monk or Mississippi John Hurt tunes to applaud covers..."

Nov. 5, 1999 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Jazz Sides

"...has also laid the bassline down under Charles Lloyd, Thelonious Monk, Coleman Hawkins, and the late great Betty Carter...."

Oct. 16, 1998 Music Feature

A Great Day in Harlem

This hourlong documentary is the fascinating story of a photograph that captures 57 New York City jazz musicians on a Harlem brownstone stoop one summer morning in 1958.

"...Mary Lou Williams, the genius and intrinsic morality of Thelonious Monk, the not-forgotten brilliance of Red Allen and Rex..."

June 16, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Jazz Sides

"...he reels off a blistering Parkeresque solo on the Monk classic, "Evidence." Both here and throughout the album it's..."

June 12, 1998 Music Review

Straight, No Chaser

Brannen Temple, aspiring to be Austin's Max Roach

"...Charlie Parker. He's the one who actually wrote that Monk tune that just played, 'Bemshaw Swing.'"..."

March 2, 2001 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Tethered Moon Chansons de Edith Piaf (Winter & Winter) / Paul Motian & the Electric Bebop Band Monk & Powell (Winter & Winter)

"...Piaf (Winter & Winter)Paul Motian & the Electric Bebop BandMonk & Powell (Winter & Winter) The French chanson is..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Music Review by Jeff Mccord

Bob Dorough Still Has the Magic Number

On 'Schoolhouse Rock!,' bebop, and being forever beatnik

"...from Miles Davis to John Zorn, Allen Ginsberg to Thelonious Monk, and Dizzy Gillespie to Blossom Dearie. He's hip..."

June 15, 2012 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Festival International de Jazz de Montréal

"...out the cerebral inner science of Bill Evans and Thelonious Monk to a packed, buzzing house, his few-note limber-up..."

July 4, 2008 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Mr. Smarty Pants

"...Thelonious Monk is the second most recorded jazz composer ever,..."

Sept. 5, 2014 Column

Playback

Austin Psych Fest and Old Settler's Music Fest headliners Psychograss have more in common than you might think

"...10) The Monkees, "Porpoise Song"..."

April 27, 2012 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Five-Star Rollins

"..."Wail March"! Horace Silver and Thelonious Monk play on two Monk compositions...."

May 1, 2009 Music Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

The Innovators

Part 2 of "Jazz," by Harvey Pekar

"...Taylor's main jazz influence was Thelonious Monk, who didn't emphasize swing either, although his improvising..."

June 15, 2001 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Better Than Nothing

Documentarian Ken Burns' takes on Jazz -- and loses.

"...Davis, Ellington, Fitzgerald, Gillespie, Goodman, Hancock, Henderson, Holiday, Mingus, Monk, Parker, Rollins, Vaughan, and Young...."

Jan. 12, 2001 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Bad Livers The Ridgetop Sessions (Lumpydisc)

Texas Platters

"...banjo exercise, and winds down with a jaunt through Thelonious Monk's "Blue Monk," which saunters right out of Don..."

June 30, 2000 Music Review by Christopher Hess

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