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

Sonny Rollins The Freelance Years: The Complete Riverside & Contemporary Recordings (Riverside/Contemporary)

Reissues

"...three of the sessions, Rollins plays sideman to leaders Thelonious Monk, Kenny Dorham, and Abbey Lincoln -- hence the..."

May 19, 2000 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

Music Critic's Poll 1998

"...Live at Carnegie Hall Sounds of North American Frogs Thelonious Monk, Monk Alone: The Complete Columbia Solo Studio Recordings,..."

Jan. 8, 1999 Music Feature

Record Reviews

"...a coterie of jazz giants that included Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, and Kenny Clarke. Their music was called "Bebop"..."

June 13, 1997 Music Review

Music To Know America By

Letters at 3AM

"...Thelonious Monk's Piano Solos. Somehow he made the instrument sound..."

Dec. 6, 1996 Column by Michael Ventura

Ascension of an Icon

Marketing John Coltrane

"...curriculum of hard bop, he absorbed the philosophies of Thelonious Monk, Ornette Coleman, and Sun Ra to help pioneer..."

Feb. 2, 1996 Music Feature

Far From the Land of Guinness

Future Pub Owner Ian McLagan

"...delightful addition to the local music menu. His band Monkey Jump - with guitarist "Scrappy" Jud Newcomb of Loose..."

April 28, 1995 Music Feature by Rob Patterson

Uncle Lucius, Norman BA$E, and More Holiday-Adjacent Live Shows

Crucial concerts for the week to keep you out and about

"...Friday 20, Monks Jazz..."

Dec. 20, 2024 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

Connection Through Jazz and Conversation at the Cactus Cafe

Rabbi Neil Blumofe tributes jazz legends and shares their stories at this monthly show

"...themes. Singer Billie Holiday, drummer Elvin Jones, and pianist Thelonious Monk are just a few performers charted over the..."

Oct. 25, 2024 Music Feature by Amber Williams

Local Rock Weirdos, Death Metal Out-of-Towners, and More Crucial Concerts

They're your ears, do with them what you will

"...Wednesday 31, Monks Jazz..."

July 26, 2024 Music Feature by Cy White

American Fiction, American Reality

Cord Jefferson is putting the Black middle class back on the screen

"...Jefferson's feature directorial debut, American Fiction. Jeffrey Wright plays Thelonious "Monk" Ellison, an academic and writer infuriated by the..."

Dec. 15, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The First-Ever Austin Women in Jazz Festival and More Crucial Concerts This Week

Plus visiting acts from Burna Boy to Mike Dimes and Dro Kenji

"...Hart wasn't sure of the exact title of a Thelonious Monk arrangement during her turn at the mic, she..."

Nov. 17, 2023 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

SXSW Film Review: Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes

The life and impact of the jazz drumming pioneer

"...Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, and Thelonious Monk in his early bebop years, Roach formed several..."

March 13, 2023 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Capyac, Marquis Hill, and Willie headline our recommended shows for the week

"...had already self-released four albums before winning the prestigious Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz International Trumpet Competition in 2014,..."

Aug. 20, 2021 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, December 4-10

"...the wrong mistakes," said Libran composer and jazz pianist Thelonious Monk. He had just completed an improvisatory performance he..."

Dec. 4, 2020 Column by Rob Brezsny

Trumpet Colossus Kenny Dorham Towers Alongside the Jazz Gods

The Austin musician stands alone in showing up Miles Davis in his autobiography

"...ultimate proving ground, and then subsequent work with pianist Thelonious Monk, Dorham settled neatly into his career-defining melodic and..."

Sept. 14, 2018 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Recommended Live Music for the Weekend

Not going to Float Fest? Stay dry with these show picks.

"...vast range of polyrhythmic textures drawing from Talking Heads, Thelonious Monk, and MF Doom. “War 4 the Status Quo”..."

July 19, 2018 Events Post by The Music Staff

The Half-Century Psych of Shiva's Headband

13th Floor Elevators weren't the only local psych act exploring Austin's outer limits – and still doing so

"...to eternal bliss. Pianist and vocalist Shawn Siegel mixed Thelonious Monk with Jelly Roll Morton on his keyboard, and..."

Dec. 1, 2017 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

Dear Glutton: Where to Escape Christmas

Hide out for the holidays

"...of jazz, probably some Mingus, or a little whispery Thelonious Monk. You won't have to listen to "All I..."

Dec. 16, 2016 Food Column by Emily Beyda

NRBQ

High Noon: A 50-Year Retrospective (Omnivore)

"...savant/constant Terry Adams, visionary captain of a band channeling Thelonious Monk and Sun Ra explorations, Chuck Berry and Johnny..."

Dec. 16, 2016 Music Feature by Scott Jordan

Going Into the City: Portrait of a Critic As a Young Man

One of the deans of music criticism details his backstory

"...Alan Freed are offered as touchstones, and he witnessed Thelonious Monk in Greenwich Village, the Grateful Dead in the..."

Oct. 16, 2015 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

Uncompromising Expression: 75 Years of the Finest in Jazz

Out of the basement and under the tree!

"..."Sidewinder," and Art Blakey's "Moanin'" are genuine treasures from Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Bud Powell, Sonny Rollins, Dexter Gordon,..."

Dec. 12, 2014 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

Deus Ex Analysis

Tutto Theatre's 'Zeus in Therapy' gives new voice to the late, great UT classics prof, Douglass Stott Parker

"...About translation, Parker once quoted Thelonious Monk: "The cats I like are the cats who..."

Aug. 16, 2013 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

Son of Rogues Gallery

"...efforts with Disney movie music and the jazz of Thelonious Monk and Charles Mingus, this Rogues Gallery is serious,..."

Feb. 22, 2013 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

You’re The Guy

NRBQ's ATX connection, Conrad Choucroun

"...crafty originals and unexpected covers from the likes of Thelonious Monk, Gordon Lightfoot, and obscure oldies from the 1950s...."

Oct. 13, 2011 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Long Live the King!

The Decemberists' Nate Query talks about their new CD

"...Jethro Tull and Chick Corea, and I’m more into Thelonious Monk and Charles Mingus. There’s a lot of great..."

April 29, 2011 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Letters at 3AM: Who's That Girl?

Singer-songwriter Joanna Newsom is an inimitable genius

"...a conceptual dissonance akin to the musical dissonance of Thelonious Monk...."

Nov. 5, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

Off the Record

Fun Fun Fun Fest by the numbers and Asleep at the Wheel's Top 40

"..."Straight, No Chaser," Thelonious Monk..."

Nov. 5, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

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