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 ...

For Thelonious Monk's 108th Birthday, we look back at the sparsely documented collaboration of the eccentric pianist and ...

The greatest lost concert in American history almost never happened at all. It was Oct. 27, 1968, in Palo Alto, California. Outside of his high school, Danny Scher, a 16-year-old, bushy-haired, ...

This month we celebrate the birthday of one of the truly unique personalities in jazz: Thelonious Monk. Born on October 10, 1917, Monk created a style of improvisation and a repertoire of compositions ...

Highlights this week include Jordan Tannahill’s NSFW-titled, must-see play, the Thelonious Monk Festival and an aerial circus ...

Earlier today, the Los Angeles–based production company Jupiter Rising Film announced that Yasiin Bey would portray Thelonious Monk in a biopic about the late jazz legend. The co-founders of Jupiter ...

He helped turn the Library of Congress into a leading center for research on the history of jazz, and made some surprising discoveries of his own. By Clay Risen Art Kane’s “Harlem 1958” gathered ...

One of my favorite Thelonious Monk sessions took place on May 30, 1952, his last for Blue Note Records. There's a slippery urgency to the pianist's playing on this date, and the sidemen are both ...

Sorry, Denzel. Yasiin Bey, the artist formerly known as Mos Def, has been cast as jazz musician Thelonious Monk in an upcoming film by screenwriter-producer Peter ...

North Coast Brewing Company is reintroducing one of its most popular beers to bars and retail stores after settling a lawsuit with the estate of jazz great Thelonious Monk. Production of “Brother ...

Years ago, screenwriter-producer Peter Lord Moreland watched Straight No Chaser, the landmark 1988 documentary on bebop pianist-composer Thelonious Monk. Thus began a near-obsessive fascination with ...

Comebacks, heartbreaks and a tribute to a jazz legend. By Alex Barron, Tina Antolini, Dan Powell, Daniel Ramirez and Jon Pareles We asked Jon Batiste, Arooj Aftab, Mary Halvorson and others to share ...