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Rocky Mount leaders salute legend Rocky Mount Telegram About a mile from Thelonious Monk's birthplace, city leaders recently gathered to celebrate with the Phoenix Historical Society of Edgecombe County with the unveiling of a marker honoring the legendary jazz musician. The marker stands at the corner of ...
Music Review: Thelonious Monk - Misterioso [Remastered] Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) Today, Thelonious Monk is recognized as one of the prominent and most influential jazz pianists and musicians of the 20th century. While he recorded for a number of labels during his lifetime, it was his time with the Riverside label, 1955-1961, ...
Jazzman Perez reaches out to the world Chicago Tribune When he's performing music of Thelonious Monk, as he says he'll do on Friday night, he imbues it with the distinctive rhythms and melodic cadences of his native Panama. That much was obvious from his critically acclaimed recording “Panamonk,” with its ...
Available starting July 30, 2012, through Sony Music's PopMarket.com and ... MarketWatch (press release) The next three titles in the Complete Album Collections series feature the music of four of the all-time greatest jazz composers - Charles Mingus and Thelonious Monk, both giants of the acoustic era, and Wayne Shorter and Joe Zawinul, whose works span ...
CD Review: Thelonious Monk Quartet - Misterioso [Remastered] Blinded By Sound The Thelonious Monk Quartet's Misterioso was recorded during their landmark 1958 engagement at the Five Spot Café in New York. The Quartet featured some of the heaviest hitters in jazz at the time, in addition to the genius piano of Monk, ...
Music Review: Jimmy Owens - The Monk Project Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) Liner notes are written by USC Professor Robin DG Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original. Overall, the playing on Owens' album is first-rate, the interpretations are enjoyable, and the arrangements are warm and ...
Piano festival turns to jazz, with brilliant work from Danilo Perez Chicago Tribune If his first three pieces amounted to ethereal musings occasionally punctuated by Latin backbeats, Perez brought more focus to the music-making in a series of pieces by Thelonious Monk (a composer he examined rigorously in his landmark "PanaMonk" ...
