Paris, 1954. The story of the meeting, known thanks to the fortuitous discovery of a forgotten notebook, full of notes and photographs, between a white British aristocrat, Baroness Pannonica de ...

Monk only lent his talents to the film world once, and the soundtrack is finally being released in time for Record Store Day. Here he paints one... This Saturday is Record Store Day, and one of its ...

Thelonious Monk III, son of jazz legend Thelonious Monk, discusses the encouragement and financial support Rothschild family heiress Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter rendered to Monk and other jazz ...

On top of his very successful career in hip-hop, Yasiin Bey, who previously went by Mos Def, has also had a thriving acting career. He appeared in movies, sitcoms, and Broadway shows as a child, and ...

There’s a story, possibly apocryphal, about Thelonious Monk and his 1956 composition “Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues-Are.” Supposedly, Monk performed the number at a club and afterward, a rather dignified ...