In jazz, this underlying tension will be reflected in bebop, and in the troubled life of it's biggest star, Charlie Parker. Dizzy Gillespie, tries to popularize the new sound by adding showmanship and ...

Composer and pianist Thelonious Monk’s eccentric style and innovative harmonies redefined jazz. His numerous contributions to ...

A set of siblings of the family of the late Rocky Mount native and Jazz great Thelonious Monk was in the city earlier this week as part of a journey through the area. One of the stops Tuesday ...

“This band is known as ‘Four of Us Are from Philly and One of Us Is Not,'” joked l egendary pianist Kenny Barron as he ...

By Hank Shteamer Great jazz composers are legion ... The soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy did this for Thelonious Monk in 1959, releasing “Reflections,” the first-ever tribute album to the ...

LEXINGTON — Anyone who has seen the work of renowned documentarian Ken Burns knows he has a way of bringing history to life. For four decades he has captured the stories of people and places ...

Back in 2015, documentarian Ken Burns was still working on his Vietnam War series when he decided the next project would be on the American Revolution. Soon, ten years after Burns first felt that ...

One of today's greatest ambassadors of jazz, Branford Marsalis ... I said, well, I haven't met Thelonious Monk, either... MARTIN: (Laughter). MARSALIS: ...Or Charlie Parker or Beethoven or ...

Carter has lectured, conducted, and performed at clinics and master classes, instructing jazz ensembles and teaching the business of music at numerous universities. He was Artistic Director of the ...