Along with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk (1917-1982) was a vital member of the jazz revolution which took place in the early 1940s. Monk's unique piano style and his talent as a ...
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One of the jazz world's foremost learning institutions will move here from Los Angeles, and those involved hope it will ensure the genre has a future in the city where it was born.The Thelonious Mo...
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Jazzman Andrew Hill, a groundbreaking pianist and composer known for his complex post-bop style, died early Friday, his record label announced. He was 75.Hill, who had been diagnosed with lung canc...
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Washington (dpa) - Max Roach, a pioneering jazz drummer who played
on key recordings with legends including Charlie Parker, Dizzy
Gillespie and Miles Davis, died Thursday in...
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Paris (dpa) - No one should really be surprised that Frenchman
Albert Fert, who won this year's Nobel Prize for Physics, is a fan of
the late jazz pianist Thelonious Monk.
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Art Davis, the renowned double bassist who played with John Coltrane and other jazz greats, has died. He was 73.Davis died of a heart attack Sunday at his home in Long Beach, his son Kimaili Davis ...
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Pete Hamill thought he'd seen it all. And then the best-selling writer thought up a character who really had.Cormac O'Connor appeared in "Forever," Hamill's best-selling 2002 novel. Cormac was kill...
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Sonny Rollins was surprised when a long-lost tape of his Carnegie Hall debut was discovered among the Voice of America's huge collection of recordings at the Library of Congress. But after listenin...
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When you mix a dash of 80’s R&B;, sprinkle a dab of retro rock/soul, and add a pinch of psychedelic funk, the combined ingredients produce On the Jungle Floor, Van Hunt's second rumble in...
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Ornette Coleman stands before Jackson Pollock’s Number 13 (1949), one of the more poetic splatter paintings, ferociously dense yet airily light. He ponders it for several minutes, tracing his...
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Thelonious Monk
Key jazz program moves to New Orleans
