thelonious monk Archive
07 Jun 2020
Album Review: Vito Dieterle and Joel Forrester – StatusSphere
Jazz fans are likely to pick up on the in-joke of this album’s cover art immediately. It’s a visual homage to the 1957 LP Monk’s Music. And the two round […]
26 Oct 2017
Reviews: 12 Jazz Reissues (Part One)
Albert Ayler Quartet – Copenhagen Live 1964 (hatOLOGY) The music of tenor saxophonist Albert Ayler (1936-1970) is assuredly not for the jazz novitiate. With an approach that makes Ornette Coleman […]
06 Jan 2016
Album Mini-review: Terry Adams — Talk Thelonious
File next to: NRBQ, Professor Longhair, Joe Jackson Though he’s rightly revered now, for much of his career jazz pianist Thelonious Monk was considered the maker of some dissonant, even […]
13 Jul 2015
Album Review: Thelonious Monk — The Complete Riverside Recordings
In my final year of college, I was exceedingly fortunate to have signed up for a course called American Popular Music History: Stephen Foster to the Present. There were only […]
28 Aug 2013
August Jazz Roundup #2
The esteemed Concord Music Group continues its series of thoughtful reissues of jazz classics from its catalog holdings with five titles originally issued on the Riverside label. I covered Chet […]
14 Nov 2012
The Very Best Of…Concord Jazz Artists
Because Concord Music Group has acquired the licensing to some of the most venerable labels in all of music (Stax, Fantasy, Riverside, Prestige, and others) as well as large chunks […]