Thelonious Monk’s best-known composition, “’Round Midnight,” was first recorded 80 years ago this month. His slow, moody ...

With the arrival Thelonious Sphere Monk, modern music— let alone ... Admitted to Peter Stuyvesant, one of the city’s best high schools, Monk dropped out at the end of his sophomore year to pursue ...

On Saturday, Los Angeles keyboardist Diego Gaeta presents a concert of reworked Monk classics at 7 p.m.; tickets are $25. On Sunday, Spanish composer and pianist Marta Sanchez presents her distinctive ...

Fleet Week, which returns this week, remains a high point in the Bay Area events calendar. Begun in 1981, the weeklong ...

Thelonious Monk playing a concert ... “I could hear that he was feeling really good. His best performances have always been live: there’s a different kind of energy and freedom than on ...

For example, Art Blakey Quintet's A Night at Birdland, which is regarded as one of the best live jazz shows ever recorded ... when the fruit was just ripe for picking. Thelonious Monk fans lucked out ...

Thelonious Monk was one of the most revered pianists ... Monk was enjoying one of the best periods in his career. He was touring extensively in America and Europe and he ended the decade with ...