Charlie Monk, an upbeat music industry networker and radio personality known as the Mayor of Music Row, died at home Monday afternoon. He was 84. Monk, who co-founded the popular Country Radio Seminar ...

A first-rate addition to understanding Monk, his music, and the broader issues of legacies in jazz is fresh from the publisher. Thelonious Monk (1917-1982) was one of jazz's greatest and most ...

It appears purely coincidental that Thelonious Monk’s posthumous Pulitzer Prize for music in 2006 came only two years before Bob Dylan was awarded a Pulitzer of his own. But these two very different ...

If you are familiar with John Beasley's MONK'estra, then you may understand my excitement level at the prospects of seeing and hearing his music in a live show. The brilliance of Thelonious Monk's ...

Craft Recordings Reissues Sought After 1957 Thelonious Monk Mono Mix In 180-gram Vinyl, All Analog Remastered Original Jazz Classics Series. Thelonious Monk’s, November 1957 release titled Monk’s ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Meredith Monk’s wondrous new work, “Weave,” performed by the Los Angeles ...

Sometime between set one and set two, Thelonious Monk and his tenor saxophonist Charlie Rouse disappeared. Clearly, some industrial-strength pharmacology transpired during the intermission. Both ...

Meredith Monk is one of the most vital American artists of the past 60 years. The 82-year-old New Yorker is a singer, composer, multi-instrumentalist, filmmaker, dancer and educator whose vast and ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) There’s something about Thelonious Monk that grabs you—not with force, but with curiosity. You lean in when he plays, like someone telling a ...

Joined by Amanda Gardier (saxophone), Jesse Wittman (bass), and trading off between drummers Cassius Goens III and Chris Parker, the quartet paid tribute to the timeless and, confirmed by Ballantine, ...

Charlie Monk, a country music industry VIP and radio personality known affectionately by those who knew him as the "Mayor of Music Row," died at his Nashville home on Monday (Dec. 19), according to a ...