Thelonious Monk

Get your holidays off to a great start with the Sherman Chamber Ensemble's Thanksgiving weekend family concerts, featuring a performance Saturday at 4 p.m. at Sherman Congregational Church, and a second concert Sunday at 3 p.m. at St. Andrew's Church in Kent. The Sherman Chamber Ensemble's annual "Jazzing up the Classics" concerts will feature highlights from Claude Bolling's jazz suites for flute (featuring Susan Rotholz) and cello (with Eliot Bailen). Read More

This past May, Darcy James Argue and his big band the Secret Society played their first dates outside New York City. A short tour of Europe took them to Amsterdam's Bimhuis, Dortmund's Domicil, and finally the Moers Festival in northern Germany. Read More

Cabbage in its wonderful diversity is the pillar of winter gardens - indeed, of whole cultures. Read More

Cabbage in its wonderful diversity is the pillar of winter gardens - indeed, of whole cultures. Read More

but I still think that over the last half century Monk has outlasted and out-"performed" the competition. Read More

Ben Williams, a 2007 graduate of Michigan State University, has won the 2009 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition, perhaps the most prestigious competition in the world for young jazz musicians. Read More

Thelonious Monk, the great American jazz artist, during the first half of his junior year at Stuyvesant High School in New York, showed up in class only 16 out of 92 days and received zeros in every one of his subjects. Read More

The winner of the 2009 Thelonious Monk International Bass competition is Ben Williams. Read More

My boss readily admits that she doesn't know a whole lot about jazz. Read More

Straight No Chaser, a documentary about Thelonious Monk, will be at the Brooklyn Lyceum on Saturday night at 9:30 in celebration of Thelonous Monk's 92nd birthday. Read More