On July 27, 1959, Thelonious Monk entered Nola Penthouse Studios on Manhattan's 57th Street for a recording session. He was wearing a very strange hat. This was often the case; the enigmatic jazz ...

Finding a lost movie soundtrack by composer/pianist Thelonious Monk at this late date seems an improbable event, at the very least. But that is what we have here: previously unreleased performances ...

Based on an 18th-century classic [novel by Choderlos de Laclos], updated pic is a glossy study of an immoral couple who get their comeuppance. Based on an 18th-century classic [novel by Choderlos de ...

Blessed with the most wonderful birth name in American music, Thelonious Sphere Monk was one of the 20th century’s great artists of the piano and one of its enduring composers of jazz. He only ever ...

Pianist Thelonious Monk was born in Rocky Mount, N.C., on Oct. 10, 1917. The centenary of this moment will likely inspire a wave of celebratory concerts and recordings. Since Monk’s death, in 1982, ...

The life of the reggae superstar based on new archival footage and many interviews with those close to him. Tom Tykwer, Andy and Lana Wachowski tell six stories stretched out over 500 years, each one ...

Few things are as infused with as much romance as are those thought lost. Take the entire myth of blues singer Robert Johnson. He produced 29 shellac sides in the late 1920s that had immeasurable ...