| 单词 | Monk |
| 例句 | It’s like she’s figured out how to play Beethoven and Thelonious Monk but hasn’t quite mastered the art of being a girl yet. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “I have as good a right to make a Word, he insisted, “as that Pedant Bigot Cynic and Monk.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Obviously she hadn't told Mr. Monk about our arrangement. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Monks Mound was the first and most grandiose of the construction projects. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z From Monks Mound we walked halfway across the southern plaza and then stopped to look back. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He had wanted to ask if Sticky’s parents knew he’d spent “half the night” looking for the Monk Building. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z When she went upstairs to change, Shukumar poured himself some wine and put on a record, a Thelonius Monk album he knew she liked. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z According to William Woods, the geographer and archaeologist at the University of Kansas, Monks Mound completely covers whatever habitation these people had before they built Cahokia. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z When he’d checked the doors of the Monk Building at noon, they were locked. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z The bag contained a pair of white cotton gloves stained the Sue Monk, Kidd color of age. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Its focal point was the great mound—Monks Mound, it is now called, named after a group of Trappists who lived nearby in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Nobody was forced to erect Monks Mound, he says. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z As he mounted the steps to the Monk Building’s broad front plaza, Reynie saw two girls well ahead of him, walking together toward the front doors. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Its rulers rebuilt Monks Mound, but the poorly engineered patch promptly sagged. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It is currently named Monks Mound after some Catholic monks who lived on or near it in the 1800s. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Cased in sweat now, I glanced at Mr. Monk, our student teacher for English. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z A catastrophic earthquake razed Cahokia in the beginning of the thirteenth century, knocking down the entire western side of Monks Mound. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Monks discovered that the astrolabe, an Arabic invention, was a handy tool for keeping track of time in the evening, helping them keep their prayers on schedule. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Monks Mound and its fellows were, in part, a shout-out to the world—Look at us! 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Nowadays Cahokia Creek, which flows from the north, and Canteen Creek, which flows from the east, join together at a point about a quarter mile northeast of Monks Mound. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z And it also let woodcutters upstream send logs almost to Monks Mound. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Monks needed math for two things: prayer and money. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The Cahokians' solution to this problem was discovered mainly by Woods, the University of Kansas archaeologist and geographer, who has spent two decades excavating Monks Mound. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Monks in yellow robes wandered along all the paths of the magnificent grove. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z With a spreading smile, she hurried across the plaza and through the front doors of the Monk Building, which had finally been unlocked. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z “I will personally escort you to the good Abbot Hubert, whose piety and wisdom is known even as far as Aberdeen. And the Red, Fat, Wicked Monk shall not touch a hair on your heads!” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The preacher is quoting verses from the Bible, and the family is weeping, and everyone is weeping, even Amanda Monk and some of the cheerleaders. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “She never tells us where anything is. It took me half the night to find the Monk Building.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z I wasn't stupid enough to try to repeat it, like Mr. Monk expected. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Inside the Monk Building, conspicuously posted signs led them down a series of corridors, past a room where a handful of parents waited anxiously, and at last into a room crowded with children in desks. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z If the doors to the Monk Building weren’t open by now, he would try to find another way in. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Later there came a version of Thelonious Monk’s “Trinkle Tinkle,” built on a series of clever rhythmic convolutions. Music Review: Red Hook Jazz Festival, at Urban Meadow in Brooklyn 2012-06-12T21:50:51Z Does Monk believe his biographical subject did the right thing in building the bomb? A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z The new album from this Jamaican-born piano eminence is “Wareika Hill: Rastamonk Vibrations,” a collection of classic Thelonious Monk tunes, all recast through a series of rhythmic and dynamic alterations rooted in dub and reggae. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z This new music startled the jazz world by splicing the sounds of township dancehalls and shebeens, African Methodist hymns of Brand's Cape Town childhood, and the American jazz of Ellington and Thelonious Monk. 50 great moments in jazz: Abdullah Ibrahim 2011-02-09T16:21:12Z Humorous gambits keep the 75-minute show buoyant: Monks are portrayed as monkeys. Review: UMO Ensemble's buffoonery shines in 'El Dorado' 2010-08-20T21:44:00Z But these were among the qualities that turned Monk into one of the great jazz composers, whose rigorously beautiful, remorselessly pared-down themes are nowadays reinterpreted by both jazz and classical artists. 50 great moments in jazz: The renaissance of Thelonious Monk 2010-04-29T15:28:00Z Tony Shalhoub’s detective character in “Monk,” with his phobia of unclean surfaces and bountiful supply of sanitary wipes, is the disorder’s poster child. America’s germaphobes were ready for this — and have been for too long 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z “I love her pace,” the composer Meredith Monk said recently at her TriBeCa loft. The Secret Muse of the Downtown Scene? Turtles 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z Monk’s House is lovely, but smaller, more restrained, almost spartan in comparison to the exuberance of Charleston. The Bloomsbury Bohemians in the British Countryside 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z "Even now I can't fully explain what he did," Monk says. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z The composer, performance artist and vocal wizard Meredith Monk has been weaving her strange magic in a series of concerts at Carnegie Hall this season, where she has been composer in residence. Review: Meredith Monk Ends Carnegie Hall Run With Mystery and Mastery 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z For a long time, Moran wouldn’t play Monk’s music in public. This Kennedy Center director is making performance art out of jazz. Can he bring fans along? 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z While a tune like “Huevos” has typically stormed from the gate in small group performances, Belisle-Chi’s version is a sly, patient route through the piece — emphasizing this music’s connection to earlier composer-improvisers, like Thelonious Monk. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z This clunky Vinnie Jones time capsule – a soccer-focused redo of The Longest Yard – features a young Statham as mercurial goalie Monk, daydreaming of making cartwheeling saves against a team of lousy screws. Every Jason Statham film - ranked! 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z The compositions driving this show express the pianist's heartwarmingly soulful lyricism, his gleefully strutting swing, and almost certainly his lifelong devotion to Ellington and Monk. Live music picks of the week 2010-03-27T00:09:00Z Despite sharing nothing more than a neon sign with Monk’s Cafe, the gang’s favorite hangout from the show, Tom’s, arguably has become the most recognizable “Seinfeld”-related tourist attraction in the city. A Food Tour of Seinfeld’s New York 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z The resident pianist of the Bang on a Can All-Stars ensemble, Ms. Chow has performed works by some of the most venerable living composers, including Steve Reich and Meredith Monk. 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in November 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z Having arrived in New York four years ago, he has played on the outside and the inside, studying with Anthony Braxton and, through a Thelonious Monk Institute scholarship, with Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock. The Passions and Travails of a Jazzy Everywoman 2011-06-20T21:40:37Z Without mentioning names, Ms. Monk remarked wryly that she felt that both selections were appropriate for the current political situation. Review: Meredith Monk, Still a Peerless Mixture of Otherworldly and Human 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Terence Blanchard, then the artistic director of the Monk Institute, said he hadn’t heard about that pact, though it didn’t surprise him. Music: For a Team Player, the Solo Moments Are Secondary 2011-04-01T21:46:41Z Monk has written two previous, and no less wonderful, biographies, both of great 20th-century philosophers. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z His interpretations are so distant from the originals that I can almost see Monk laughing at the whole thing with bemused satisfaction. For the First Time, Thelonious Monk’s Songbook Swings Solo 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z In 1977, Mike became the popular-music correspondent of the International Herald Tribune, producing back-page articles on everything from Monk to Motown, a post which sustained him for a quarter of a century. Mike Zwerin obituary 2010-04-18T18:07:00Z "I was happy until a little girl came and told me I wasn't," Monk, who heads a nonprofit and has a community and a life he says he loves, tells Lisa. "The Simpsons" joins Hollywood in highlighting deaf characters – but it still feels like pandering 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z And both albums hinge on Mr. Iyer’s emphatic but flowing pianism, which borrows aspects of touch and temperament from Andrew Hill, Thelonious Monk and Randy Weston, among others. Critic?s Notebook: ?Accelerando? by the Vijay Iyer Trio 2012-03-14T22:16:29Z That solo begins the evening, with Ms. Monk seated on a dais wearing a white bobbed wig and white dress and pants, her face powdered and slightly turned away. Dance Review: Multitasker Reverses the Aging Process 2011-06-10T23:56:26Z By this point in his book, Mr. Monk has begun to explain quantum physics and drop the names of the heavyweights. Books of The Times: ‘Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center,’ by Ray Monk 2013-05-27T21:46:27Z When a man counts both Thelonious Monk and Malcolm X as friends, there's only so much ground an 86-minute movie can cover. 'Pleasures of Being Out of Step' a brisk look at Nat Hentoff 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z His directing credits include "Monk" and the TV movie "Elmore Leonard's Gold Coast." Weller of 'Robocop' fame joins `Star Trek' sequel 2011-12-05T19:08:15Z To open this year’s Earshot Jazz Festival, 10 pianists will perform the music of Thelonious Monk. Your week in Seattle music: Alt-J, Nas and more 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z In Billy Taylor’s time at the Kennedy Center, an evening of Monk would have presented good musicians simply playing Monk’s compositions. This Kennedy Center director is making performance art out of jazz. Can he bring fans along? 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z The album, “Monk Restrung,” is finally set for release, and its full personnel will reassemble here. Jazz Listings for Nov. 25-Dec. 1 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z When Ms. Waldman performed with Ms. Monk in six numbers at the concert’s end, the play between the two women was delightful. Review: Meredith Monk and Anne Waldman, in Playful Collaboration 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z He’s a premiere interpreter of Thelonious Monk, and like that jazz great, he’s among the artists hailed in Matthew Shipp’s iconic essay on the Black Mystery School Pianists. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Jazz Piano 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z As such, he appears in the three-part Monk in Motion series, leading a group with Billy Buss on trumpet, Victor Gould on piano, Ben Street on bass and Mark Whitfield Jr. on drums. Jazz Listings for Jan. 24-30 2014-01-24T00:18:46Z The spirit of Thelonious Monk appears on “Erroneous Love,” a track—written by Mr. O’Farrillto to celebrate the Monk centennial in 2017—that uses the great pianist and composer’s “Eronel” as a point of departure. ‘El Maquech’ Review: Big Sounds From a Small Group 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z But when he has taken TV on, it’s worked out: He had a limited role in USA’s “Monk” and won an Emmy for best guest actor in a comedy series in 2004. In ‘The Night Of,’ John Turturro Picks Up Where James Gandolfini Left Off 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z The singers and musicians – three in Monk's ensemble, plus the Elysian string quartet – move constantly, creating exquisite patterns and complex relationships on the stage. Songs of Ascension 2010-08-31T20:30:00Z Even as isolated audio, there is a sense of what Monk wrote in her “Notes on the Voice,” of “the dancing voice” and “the voice as flexible as the spine.” At 80, Meredith Monk Is Still Seeking Ways to Communicate 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z Monk's biography of Wittgenstein was subtitled "the duty of genius" – that description describes, perhaps, what Oppenheimer thought he was fulfilling on the Manhattan Project. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z But the Monk Space in Koreatown just put on such a show — with soloists who “offered a fascinating look at the inner workings of musical life in L.A.” Essential Arts & Culture: Chicago architecture biennial, 'The Red Shoes' hits L.A. and more PST: LA/LA 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z The evening's finale, after the announcement of the competition winner, featured a revolving drum chair -- with Mr. Ross and the entire panel of judges -- on a version of the Monk composition "In Walked Bud." ArtsBeat: Winners of the Thelonious Monk Competition Announced 2012-09-24T03:34:01Z Last fall, at 23, she won the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition — the reason for her appearance on this concert, part of the Monk-in-Motion series at the TriBeCa Performing Arts Center. Jazz Listings for Feb. 19-25 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Who could forget Mr Monk and the Panic Room, where the only suspect is a monkey with a gun? Natalie Haynes's guide to TV detectives: #10 – Adrian Monk 2012-05-29T10:35:38Z Where other pianists played light chords with their left hand and quicker notes with the right, Monk played equally complicated notes with both hands, leading to complex arrangements that traversed the entire scale. Five Minutes That Will Make You Love Thelonious Monk 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z Prosecutors are expected to ask Judge James Zagel to send Monk to prison for two years. Ex-Blagojevich aide Monk faces sentencing today 2012-04-03T11:59:00Z At the start, he’s seen dyspeptically punching the tape deck in his convertible, trying to memorize the notes on a Thelonious Monk recording as if they’re times tables. Jazz Onscreen, Depicted by Black Filmmakers at Last 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z This week in New York there are or have been concerts paying homage to or performing the repertory of: Count Basie, Clifford Jordan, Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Quartet. Music Review: School?s in Session, but Don?t You Dare Take Notes 2011-05-20T03:02:48Z The revelation of the Monk Space concert, which included a number of unpublished pieces written between 1938 and 1940, was just how many were his toys and just how much musical acreage he accrued. A centennial tribute to 'The Divine Mr. Harrison' 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z The exhibition also offers a rare opportunity to see works by a towering Yuan painter, Zhao Mengfu, including his "Monk in a Red Robe." NYC Exhibit Unveils Rich Treasures of Yuan Dynasty 2010-09-27T09:51:00Z Here was Monk as no one else plays him, Perez avoiding the obvious dissonances and rhythmic asymmetries that lesser pianists invoke. The provocative pianism of Danilo Perez 2011-04-22T14:03:00Z In the set’s copious booklet, Keepnews discusses his plan for establishing the modernist Monk—namely, by making explicit his ties to jazz tradition. The Best of Thelonious Monk 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z USA as in, these colors don’t run/never forget/”Monk.” “Playing House” is the best female comedy no one you know is watching 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z “Nixon” — an essential American opera of the last 50 years, along with Meredith Monk’s “Atlas” and Philip Glass’s “Satyagraha” — made myth of recent history. John Adams, an American Master at 75 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z “A bunch of us, while we were practicing our Thelonious Monk stuff, we were also practicing our Tribe,” he told the audience. Jason Moran and Q-Tip usher in the Kennedy Center’s hip-hop era. 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z Her shift from filmmaking to writing happened, she said, after making a documentary, “The Jazz Baroness,” about her great-aunt, Nica Rothschild, who ran away from husband and family to follow Thelonious Monk. Hannah Rothschild Adds Novelist to Her Résumé 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z His style had evolved, in line with modernists like Lennie Tristano and Thelonious Monk, but he still had a trace of the South in his earthy attack, and in his untroubled relationship with blues inflection. Mose Allison, a Font of Jazz and Blues, Dies at 89 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z Monk wasn’t in the best of health by the time of this concert at the Salle Pleyel; within a few years, he would stop performing altogether. Playlist: New Albums: Neil Young, Thelonious Monk and Shelby Lynne 2013-12-06T21:53:11Z Aside from the thick racial friction, many people didn’t think an artist as prominent as Monk would actually show up to play at a high school. 52 Years Ago, Thelonious Monk Played a High School. Now Everyone Can Hear It. 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z The new double album is a peek into Corea’s musical heart, containing songs he wrote about children decades ago as well as tunes by Mozart, Thelonious Monk and Stevie Wonder, among others. On new album, Chick Corea plays with a piano and his fans 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z The interview took place nearly six years after Monk was featured on a Time magazine cover under the banner “Jazz: Bebop and Beyond” and one year before he stopped making music. ‘Rewind & Play’ Review: Thelonious Monk Dazzles Even When an Interview Falls Flat 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z Swing Original Monks is not a fusion band, it's an infusion band. December's best music from across the MAP 2012-12-19T10:00:00Z American Contemporary Music Ensemble, universally known by its acronym, celebrates the release of a new album with this concert, one in a series curated by Meredith Monk. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z The Monks will donate the money to a children's cancer charity. Lawyer: LaBelle settles suit over NYC lobby run-in 2012-09-05T12:28:09Z Ms. Monk and her group were too busy singing them — living them, you could say — to sit and score them. Can Meredith Monk Teach a Musical State of Mind? 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z The concert’s wide-ranging program also brought together Thelonious Monk, Oscar Brown Jr. and Serge Gainsbourg in the same multicultural tent, where rhythm overruled emotion. Music Review: Cyrille Aimée and the Surreal Band at Birdland 2012-11-23T22:27:45Z Ms. Monk is best known for her innovative vocal techniques, which, for a long time, she was reluctant to notate. Review: American Contemporary Music Ensemble at the Kitchen 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z The semifinals will be streamed online at the Web sites of the Smithsonian Institution and the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz. ArtsBeat: 14 Monk Competition Semifinalists Are Named 2013-08-15T10:00:06Z The hourlong show is held together by the radio program, which, along with music, offers a potted biography of Monk: some good quotes, some bad puns, but no fresh insight or point of view. Review: ‘Thelonious’ is a Tap Tribute to a Musician 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Another composition, “Brilliant Corners”, proved so daunting for Monk, Sonny Rollins and other first-rate musicians that they could not get through the song in a single take. Orrin Keepnews, producer of milestone jazz albums, dies at 91 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z December 6th and 10th: Meredith Monk’s “On Behalf of Nature,” at BAM, used song, dance, and instrumental composition to evoke the fragile immensity of the natural landscape. Ten Notable Performances and Recordings of 2014 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z “The new things are about micro and macro: from the smallest atom to the universe,” said Bob Monk, a Gagosian director who has known Mr. Ruscha for decades and was at the London opening. Ed Ruscha Continues His Wordplay 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z “It’s like a crystal,” Mr. Okazaki said of Monk’s music in an interview. For the First Time, Thelonious Monk’s Songbook Swings Solo 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Joey played a solo version of the Monk ballad “‘Round Midnight” as the finale, earning a standing ovation, glowing reviews and some influential supporters. Joey Alexander, an 11-Year-Old Jazz Sensation Who Hardly Clears the Piano’s Sightlines 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z Solo is an especially meaningful format for Monk. For the First Time, Thelonious Monk’s Songbook Swings Solo 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z If you keep a musician friend for over 50 years, as the experimental director Ping Chong has done with Meredith Monk, just maybe at your retirement celebration, that friend will sing you a song. For a Pioneering Artist, the Joy of Having Done the Work His Way 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z Another story that touches on the deep contradictions of racial relations in America is Lewis Lapham’s 1964 profile of Thelonious Monk, which appeared online for the first time this week, on longform.org. What to Read This Weekend 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z Such a deep well of eccentricity made Columbo amusing as well as incisive, not to mention a progenitor of later characters like Tony Shalhoub’s Monk. Peter Falk, Rumpled and Crafty Actor on ?Columbo,? Dies at 83 2011-06-24T18:55:12Z The Monk gig happened a week before the name change was up for a vote before the East Palo Alto Municipal Council. 52 Years Ago, Thelonious Monk Played a High School. Now Everyone Can Hear It. 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z He sets the exuberant piece to a soundtrack of varied artists, including Meredith Monk and Barry White. Dance Listings for Oct. 24-30 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z That moment preceded the finale, a romp through “Blue Monk” that had all hands on deck, two pianists to a bench. Music Review: Four Pianists, Teaming and Competing 2011-07-22T23:35:20Z Digitally restored and widely available for the first time on Friday, “Palo Alto” captures a band hitting a high note, even as Monk battled personal and professional turmoil. 52 Years Ago, Thelonious Monk Played a High School. Now Everyone Can Hear It. 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z There’s a famous engraving from the 1800s of women reading The Monk and giggling and sort of getting titillated in a Victorian house. Guillermo del Toro on Strong Women and the Haunted House in 'Crimson Peak' 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z Taylor blazed his way through Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag" and displayed lyrical sensitivity in Art Tatum's arrangement of Duke Ellington's "In a Sentimental Mood" and Thelonius Monk's "Ruby, My Dear." Jacaranda unleashes a tribute to composer John Adams that goes a little bit 'Berserk' 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z Paul Barach, author of “Fighting Monks and Burning Mountains,” will speak April 28 at 7 p.m. about hiking the 750-mile Shikoku Trail in Japan. Getting hands-on travel advice in Seattle area 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z Last year's winner of the Monk Institute's saxophone competition, Aldana had a twisting, soft-handed tone; her nimble trio deserved better than a crowd still finding its seats. Playboy Jazz Festival keeps the party moving at the Bowl 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z Then, an obsessive historian named Sam Stephenson discovered a vault of photos and audiotapes of Monk rehearsing what would be his legendary 1959 big band concert at New York’s Town Hall. This Kennedy Center director is making performance art out of jazz. Can he bring fans along? 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z Thankfully, that mystery will soon be solved because Monk is finally making his return in an upcoming movie on Peacock. Adrian Monk returns in “Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie”: Watch the trailer 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z Perhaps more than anyone, Monk embodied jazz’s highest calling: to sound radically like yourself. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Jazz Piano 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z Monk describes the labor-intensive cooking process, from the pitman carefully tending the fire to chopping to a texture that’s just right. Why North Carolina’s barbecue scene is still smoldering 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z Monk was the master of the single note, perfectly selected, timed, and struck so that it would have a symphonic amplitude. The Best of Thelonious Monk 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Monks first grew vines on the site of the present winery in 1857. Five Reasons to Visit Beirut 2011-10-27T12:40:00Z I read “The Lady and the Monk” last fall, during my first visit to Japan. Pico Iyer’s Japanese Love Story, from Spring to “Autumn Light” 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z W Eugene Smith captures Thelonious Monk and his Town Hall band in rehearsal, 1959. Mingus, Monk and Mailer: W Eugene Smith's Jazz Loft photographs 2010-05-12T11:51:00Z The nature of almost any Monk composition is that it's difficult to play – but Thelonious's problem was that he didn't want to admit there was anything unusual or difficult. 50 great moments in jazz: The renaissance of Thelonious Monk 2010-04-29T15:28:00Z February 14, 2010 Fake Psychic and Friend, Trying the Stage QUICK, what is the name of the “Monk” sidekick? 2010-02-12T22:16:00Z The lovely theme of The Shrine sounds somewhere between Monk and Abdullah Ibrahim and features delicious flute and trombone solos. Randy Weston: The Storyteller - review 2011-07-28T21:00:03Z He routinely raided the record stores in his hometown of Louisville and picked one of Monk’s early records off the wall at random. Why NRBQ never really needed a hit record to measure its success 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Adams became a regular attendee at Monk’s shows, enough that he met the pianist multiple times and was granted a permanent spot on the guest list. Why NRBQ never really needed a hit record to measure its success 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Lapham portrays Monk as an odd character who is very much absorbed with his own mind and music and seems faintly surprised when the outside world impinges on his life. What to Read This Weekend 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z "And yet," says Monks, "they are bursting with talent." Strings attached 2010-10-02T23:03:00Z Monk is more than a bandleader and a soloist. The Best of Thelonious Monk 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Then, there are the parents whose music snobbery overrides common sense, and they insist their kid “loves Thelonius Monk,” even as the poor kid’s eyes glaze over while dad gets all hep with it. 4 Dad-Friendly Playlists for Kids 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z For each of the 70 tunes on “Work,” Mr. Okazaki listened closely to a single recording by Monk, homing in on the details. For the First Time, Thelonious Monk’s Songbook Swings Solo 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z The final version had to be spliced from different takes, but the result conveys the essence of Monk's melodic and rhythmic audacity. 50 great moments in jazz: The renaissance of Thelonious Monk 2010-04-29T15:28:00Z But whether it’s Monk or skateboarding or hip-hop, Moran is taking his own approach. This Kennedy Center director is making performance art out of jazz. Can he bring fans along? 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z While Ms. Monk largely abandoned texts, Ms. Soper is keenly interested in them, if only to chart the degree to which their words become incomprehensible when set in song. Review: Kate Soper’s Songs of Sirens and Female Identity 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z “I’ve had patients who are part of the Jewish Orthodox community who have gone to this place in Rockland county called a baby hotel,” Dr. Monk said. It Takes a Village to Care for a Baby. And, for a Lucky Few, a Luxury Hotel. 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z "Where he got out to meet his parents is no longer a station," says Monk, who is now professor of philosophy at the University of Southampton. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z Still, learning to play Monk’s music remains an almost unavoidable rite of passage. At 100, Thelonious Monk Gets a Hero’s Celebration 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z Jonathan Monk's mildly amusing show at the gallery Cherry and Martin is a peek behind the curtain, a scattering of clues. Enter the artist's Berlin studio — without leaving L.A. 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z Kelley, who wrote the definitive 2009 biography “Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original,” the live recording catches the Monk quartet at a final creative high. 52 Years Ago, Thelonious Monk Played a High School. Now Everyone Can Hear It. 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z A version of this review appears in print on April 11, 2014, on page C10 of the with the headline: Breaking Silence on a Monk. Movie Review: ‘Thomas Keating’ Follows a Life From Affluent to Austere 2014-04-10T23:23:52Z Behold: Into this controversial arena now steps Sue Monk Kidd with “The Book of Longings,” a novel about Jesus’s wife. Review | In Sue Monk Kidd’s ‘The Book of Longings,’ Jesus has a wife — and behold, she’s so woke! 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z Alessi had made statues look hyperactive up to this point, but he began a revealing weave on the ensuing Thelonious Monk feature, which he introduced as a nimbly skipping unaccompanied overture. Jim Hart/Ralph Alessi 2010-07-29T21:00:00Z But none of this is explicit, and if there are moments in the piece intended to provoke feelings of spiritual transcendence, others are deliberately earthy, delivered by Monk with a cheerful, cheeky grin. Songs of Ascension 2010-08-31T20:30:00Z But for so much of her output, it's difficult if not impossible to separate the piece from Monk herself, so integral is her voice and her work with her singers to what you hear. A guide to Meredith Monk's music 2012-11-19T16:15:06Z The association bestowed the award for best up-and-coming artist on the bass player Ben Williams, who released his debut album, "State of Art," last year after winning the 2009 Thelonious Monk International Competition. ArtsBeat: Sonny Rollins Is Big Winner at Jazz Awards 2012-06-21T17:59:45Z He is a huge fan of Meredith Monk, whom he recalled meeting about six months ago in New York. Nico Muhly, Composer of ?Dark Sisters? and ?Two Boys? 2011-11-04T15:23:56Z “Thelonious Monk,” by Robin D. G. Kelley, the biography of a musical genius written by a certified polymath. Why Michael Eric Dyson Would Demote ‘Heart of Darkness’ From the Canon 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z We just played “Jump Monk” and “Four” and “Moose the Mooche” and all of those songs because we felt like it was important as American musicians to be familiar with that style of music. 13 Shows. No Repeats. Trey Anastasio on How Phish Pulled Off the ‘Baker’s Dozen.’ 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z Well before just about every choreographer on the planet declared their allegiance to multidisciplinary work, Meredith Monk was creating pieces that defied characterization in their use of song, speech, movement, film and images. Dance Review: Multitasker Reverses the Aging Process 2011-06-10T23:56:26Z Over 75 minutes, Ms. Monk spun together these divergent elements so fluidly that it created an unmistakable sense of hope. Review: Meredith Monk, Still Peerless at Shocking Serenity 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z First published anonymously, on the second edition Lewis, then an MP, included his name: Coleridge was only one of many who was scandalised to see that "the author of The Monk signs himself — a legislator!" Paul Murray's top 10 wicked clerics 2010-03-17T15:38:00Z “Thelonious Monk is from here,” Charles, 39, said. The Syncopated Sounds of Old San Juan Hill at the New Geffen Hall 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Ms. Monks — indebted to Kim Deal but also any number of throaty metal singers — is a swaggering, jubilantly gritty vocalist, forever seeming as if she might slip off the rails. Review: Dilly Dally Rocks Out at the CMJ Music Marathon Without Keeling Over 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Evans feints and bobs in his playing, splashing down a cluster of notes, sifting through a series of rich chords, then percussively scrambling a winnowed-down melodic line à la Thelonious Monk. Music Review: A Big Band Theory: The More Energy the Better 2010-09-30T21:05:00Z Monk, the son of the institute’s famed namesake, did not respond to an email requesting comment. Israeli Pianist Wins Thelonious Monk Contest 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z Monk retells this great 20th-century tragedy magnificently, in measured English prose, not Time journalese. Inside the Centre: The Life of J Robert Oppenheimer by Ray Monk – review 2012-12-16T00:05:05Z This week's Clip joint is by Sophie Monks Kaufman, who also wrote the posts on siren songs and maniacal laughs. Clip joint: When the wind blows 2012-06-20T16:47:18Z Monk emerged in the 1940s as one of the high priests of bebop, and was the house pianist at Minton's Playhouse, bop's after-hours laboratory. 50 great moments in jazz: The renaissance of Thelonious Monk 2010-04-29T15:28:00Z It’s always cold, damp and foggy in Anne Perry’s Victorian mysteries featuring William Monk, commander of the Thames River Police. The Scene of the Crime: Four Mysteries in Ominous Locales 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z The Monk competition spotlights a different instrument each year, and this year the focus is turning to the drums. ArtsBeat: Monk Competition Announces Semifinalists 2012-08-23T14:18:38Z The nannies and maids and cooks all quit, saying, Ms. Monks writes, “it’s your mother, I can’t be around her.” The Carnegies: a Ghost Story 2010-08-12T00:28:00Z In Sue Monk Kidd’s ‘The Book of Longings,’ Jesus has a wife — and behold, she’s so woke! Review | Anna Solomon’s ‘Book of V’ will please fans of ‘The Hours’ with its sprawling take on a biblical tale 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z Over the years, Ms. Monks developed breast cancer, and she now believes that the trigger was a lifetime of stress. The Carnegies: a Ghost Story 2010-08-12T00:28:00Z Here, Ms. Monk resurrects parts of one of her most important pieces, “Education of the Girlchild,” which began with a solo in 1972 and was expanded into a full-length version in 1973. Dance Review: Multitasker Reverses the Aging Process 2011-06-10T23:56:26Z Beyond a common repertory, with songs by the likes of Monk and Miles Davis, they had common experience, some of it abidingly deep. Music Review: Ad Hoc Quartet With Common Roots 2010-08-29T21:38:00Z The manager, Nathan Monk, grandson of original owner Wayne Monk, takes me to the kitchen to see how they cook pork shoulders, which is what they’re known for out here. Why North Carolina’s barbecue scene is still smoldering 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z One notable exception was Monk’s composition “Brilliant Corners,” recorded in 1956. Orrin Keepnews, Jazz Producer and Record Executive, Is Dead at 91 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z As such, he appears on the Monk in Motion series, most likely previewing material from his forthcoming debut album, due out this year. Jazz Listings for Feb. 21-27 2014-02-21T00:02:41Z Now we’re focusing on Thelonious Monk, the innovative pianist and bandleader whose angular melodies and dissonant chords made him stand out among his peers in the bebop era. Five Minutes That Will Make You Love Thelonious Monk 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z Their daughter, whom Ms. Monks calls Sandra in her book, was born two years later, and their son, whom she calls Angus, arrived 18 months after that. The Carnegies: a Ghost Story 2010-08-12T00:28:00Z One day, when Jason was about 13, his father put on Thelonious Monk’s “ ’Round Midnight.” This Kennedy Center director is making performance art out of jazz. Can he bring fans along? 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z The Sleepy Monk coffee bar is next door. Going to Cannon Beach? Times readers tell you where to eat 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z He was there courtesy of the Monk-in-Motion series, which presents the Monk competition’s top three finalists with their bands. Marquis Hill Blacktet Plays at TriBeCa Performing Arts Center 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z Even as she performed music by Jelly Roll Morton and borrowed arranging styles from Don Redman, she created swing riffs that became the basis for compositions by Thelonious Monk and other modernists. A Hidden Hero of Jazz 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z But she is in many ways still the “thirty-year old girl with daydreams” whom Iyer described in “The Lady and the Monk.” Pico Iyer’s Japanese Love Story, from Spring to “Autumn Light” 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z Others suggested hybrids of Chopin and Thelonious Monk, or Bach and bebop. Music: Festival of Contemporary Music at Tanglewood 2010-08-17T22:36:00Z It’s called “Top Ten Monks,” and it looks at a group of Roman Catholic monks in Austria whose recording of Gregorian chants became an unexpected hit on pop charts in Europe. Television Review: Putting Faith Vocations to the Real-World Test 2010-12-19T23:25:31Z Monk spent much of 1968 struggling with health challenges that slowed his output and ultimately led to his isolation. 52 Years Ago, Thelonious Monk Played a High School. Now Everyone Can Hear It. 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z Two tunes by Thelonious Monk run a close second. Brad Mehldau Evolves in ‘10 Years Solo Live,’ a New Boxed Set 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Monk is no longer a homicide detective for the San Francisco Police Department, but he’s working as a private police homicide consultant. Adrian Monk returns in “Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie”: Watch the trailer 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z Specifically, the concert will focus on his “Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall” recording from 1959, with the musicians, led by composer and keyboardist Wayne Horvitz, expanding and improvising on Monk’s originals. Your week in Seattle music: Alt-J, Nas and more 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z Any sense of a competition between the festivals is a friendly one: The Bang on a Can All-Stars will appear with Meredith Monk at both events. What to See and Experience in New York City This Spring 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z I love Monk for innumerable reasons, but I will keep it to 10, so he wouldn't feel uncomfortable. Natalie Haynes's guide to TV detectives: #10 – Adrian Monk 2012-05-29T10:35:38Z “I think of her with so much affection because of all of us downtown people walking into her class: Yvonne Rainer, Steve Paxton and all kinds of people with some ballet dancers,” Ms. Monk said. ‘Mia, a Dancer’s Journey,’ at Film Festival in New York 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z "He had wanted those close bonds so much," Monk writes, "but had not known how to create them." A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z Still, in the New York venue that nurtured the musical experiments of Meredith Monk and Robert Ashley, the E. Jane presentation signals a vibe shift. E. Jane Signals a Vibe Shift in What ‘Performance’ Means 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z The preparations for Thelonious Monk’s celebrated 1959 big-band concert at Town Hall are laid out in thrilling detail in the last third of the movie. Review: ‘The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith’ 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z It does do that, but it's not obvious that this is a privileged way of understanding, as Monk says, "Oppenheimer himself". Inside the Centre: The Life of J Robert Oppenheimer by Ray Monk – review 2012-11-16T10:06:01Z As I arrived this Sunday evening, I felt I might actually see Monk, who was the house pianist, on the front steps, wearing a too-big pinstriped suit and a jaunty beret. The Harlem Jazz Club Where the Spirit of Billie Holiday Lives On 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z She had been asked to write a biography of Wittgenstein, but stepped aside in favour of Monk since she confessed to knowing nothing of his philosophy. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z The next year he played a Martian in "Zombies of the Stratosphere" and scored his first title role in "Kid Monk Baroni." Leonard Nimoy dies: Remembering his non-'Star Trek' movies 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Their obvious differences — Ms. Galás, the gloomy siren; Ms. Monk, winsome and whimsical — belie similarities: a shared edge of anxiety, sly humor and an ultimately reassuring grounding in the body and its processes. The Best Classical Music of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z As the winner of the Monk Competition she will receive a $25,000 music scholarship and a recording contract with the Concord Music Group. Jazzmeia Horn Wins Thelonious Monk Institute International Jazz Competition 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z For his version, Mr. Monk commissioned a local hot-rod painter to airbrush images from the series onto the hoods of classic American muscle cars. Art in Review: Jonathan Monk 2011-04-01T01:54:46Z “Some in the profession no longer believe a dysfunctional family is the only cause,” Ms. Monks recalls being told, and all these years later her voice still breaks slightly with relief. The Carnegies: a Ghost Story 2010-08-12T00:28:00Z He studied piano as a child but switched to vibraphone after hearing Milt Jackson play the instrument on a recording of Thelonious Monk's "Bemsha Swing." Brilliant, inventive jazz vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson dies 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z The 50s had not been a good time for Monk, but though neglected he continued to explore. 50 great moments in jazz: The renaissance of Thelonious Monk 2010-04-29T15:28:00Z One shows text slides that distill history and current events — a story about Thelonious Monk, a comment on how political movements splinter, a reminder of the water crisis in Jackson, Miss., and so on. 3 Artists Are Urged to Go Big. They Didn’t Hold Back. 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z The trumpeter Jimmy Owens knows every angle of approach and at least some of the potential pitfalls, which accounts for the steady equilibrium of “The Monk Project.” New Music: New Music by Kevin Hufnagel, Jimmy Owens and Guided by Voices 2012-01-03T00:53:03Z Aretha Franklin will be honored at a gala concert in Washington to mark the 25th anniversary of The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, the institute announced Thursday. ArtsBeat Blog: Thelonious Monk Institute to Honor Aretha Franklin 2011-08-11T13:02:00Z Like Ellington — and Thelonious Monk, another deep influence — Ibrahim often plays his own compositions, changing them slightly over time. Jazz thrill: South African pianist Abdullah Ibrahim comes to Seattle 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z Other collaborators over the years included Jones, saxophonist and bandleader Benny Carter, drummer Buddy Rich, pianist Thelonious Monk, and trumpet and flugelhorn master Clark Terry. Phil Woods, celebrated alto saxophonist in jazz, dies at 83 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z As for his two-volume biography of Bertrand Russell, to read it is to feel Monk's mounting distaste for his subject. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z They distributed beers, including the cultish Pliny the Elder I.P.A. to Monk’s Café in Philadelphia and to Falling Rock, where the couple attended the closing festivities with fellow brewers. Last Call for the Beer Bar? 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z Joey began playing piano at 6, picking out a Thelonious Monk tune by ear, which led Mr. Sila, an amateur pianist, to teach him some fundamentals. Joey Alexander, an 11-Year-Old Jazz Sensation Who Hardly Clears the Piano’s Sightlines 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z Thelonious Monk was in the midst of a creative resurgence in the summer of 1959, but he was going through personal tribulations as well. The Playlist: Kendrick Lamar Backs Up His Boasts 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z Chasing away the gray is the reason Ms. Monks wrote her slim, lyrical memoir, which tells the physical journey of a family from one island to the next. The Carnegies: a Ghost Story 2010-08-12T00:28:00Z And he closed with a winner: Monk’s “Let’s Call This,” with original lyrics about the dwindling flame of a love affair. 2010-01-08T03:51:00Z At its best, Monk's music sounds like a folk music for the whole world. A guide to Meredith Monk's music 2012-11-19T16:15:06Z One snippet of video showed Monk himself dancing, shambling into the lurching shuffle that he would rise from the piano to do when he felt his band was really swinging. Review: ‘Thelonious’ is a Tap Tribute to a Musician 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z In a direct reference to Chekhov’s story “The Black Monk,” Nora describes the Shadids as her “three Black Monks” who for a brief period reawaken her to the possibilities of life. Books of The Times: ‘The Woman Upstairs,’ by Claire Messud 2013-05-02T16:47:10Z It would be simplistic to call “On Behalf of Nature” a climate-change piece, for Ms. Monk’s point is the intermeshing of human and nonhuman in natural space, not a call to arms. ‘On Behalf of Nature,’ Meredith Monk’s Wild Side 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z "I read everything Russell wrote, which, given he was such a voluminous writer was no mean feat, including the 40,000 letters, and I could not warm to him," Monk says. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z Sunday’s program was produced by Embassy Row, with Brandon Monk and Michael Davies as executive producers. A Live ‘Love Is Blind’ Special on Netflix Is Delayed, Vexing Fans 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z Rouse had a rectilinear bluesiness that pushed heartily against Monk’s oblique interpolations and helped to propel the pianist’s solos. The Best of Thelonious Monk 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Not that war features in “The Black Monk,” which is based on an 1894 short story by Anton Chekhov. Avignon Festival Gets Its Buzz Back 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z “The Monk of Mokha” is the third in his series of real-life accounts of immigrants to America caught in the jaws of history. ‘The Monk of Mokha’ is Dave Eggers’s Latest PG-13 Story About the American Dream 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z In 1948, when Mr. Keepnews was managing editor of the jazz magazine Record Changer, he wrote an early profile of Monk, an eccentric composer and pianist who was not widely known at the time. Orrin Keepnews, producer of milestone jazz albums, dies at 91 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z Next up is a musical adaptation of “The Secret Life of Bees,” which was first a novel by Sue Monk Kidd, and then a 2008 film starring Queen Latifah and Dakota Fanning. ‘Secret Life of Bees’ Part of Powerhouse’s Summer Season at Vassar 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z Lisa Jardine wrote the words every publisher wants to read in the Financial Times about Ray Monk's Inside the Centre: The Life of J Robert Oppenheimer. Critical eye: reviews roundup 2012-11-23T22:55:05Z Ms. Monk’s new “Realm Variations” was energized when Catherine Payne played the improbably lyrical piccolo part and when Ms. Monk was singing, her voice warmly fragile. Music Review: American Mavericks, with San Francisco Symphony, at Zankel 2012-04-01T18:48:27Z Ms. Monk, celebrating the 50th year of her New York career, is featured in what she has called a “nonverbal rant,” but the mood of the piece as a whole is more melancholy than angry. Opera and Classical Music Listings for Dec. 5-Dec.11 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z The father of four children, Monk has spent 11 years researching, writing and thinking about Oppenheimer's life and so, one suspects, there are very few biographical facts he does not know. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z The family-owned boutique hotel is home to the pint-size Monks’ Bar, known as the smallest pub in Pennsylvania, and the aptly named Grand Hall, a sumptuous event space featuring restored Austrian stained glass windows. Former Churches Blessed With New Lives in Pittsburgh 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z Another, rather grotesque story Monk relates, shows how much he has succeeded in that aim. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z Big Chief Monk Boudreaux and the Golden Eagles brought the club version of their music, with costumed singers backed by a funk band. Music Review: New Orleans and Brazil Bring Beats to Lincoln Center 2013-08-04T20:34:34Z As on his new album, “MONK’estra,” Mr. Beasley appears here with a big band, playing his arrangements of Thelonious Monk’s music; the special guest on Friday and Saturday is the violinist Regina Carter. Jazz Listings for Aug. 19-25 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z But we also hear a lot of trite background music, alternately bouncy and ominous, the kind familiar to fans of “Monk” or “Murder, She Wrote.” Television Review: Jackson Brodie Mysteries on PBS - Review 2011-10-14T23:14:58Z Mr. Shalhoub, of the television series "Monk" and Broadway productions like "Lend Me a Tenor," will play Mr. Bonaparte, Joe's father. ArtsBeat: 'Golden Boy' Cast Features Tony Shalhoub, Yvonne Strahovski and Danny Burstein 2012-08-08T17:22:34Z The first year, its programming included Philip Glass’s opera “Satyagraha”; since then, the festival has blended new artists with return engagements by mainstays like Laurie Anderson, Meredith Monk and Robert Wilson. BAM Reimagines the Next Wave Festival 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z The Meredith Monk of recent decades is an artist whose eclecticism is characterized by generosity. Dance Review: Meredith Monk at St. Mark’s Church 2012-11-20T22:38:02Z Mr. Irabagon won the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition 10 years ago thanks to a big saxophone sound that’s as sturdy as it is unruly. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z But whether it’s the angular accents of Thelonious Monk’s “Bye Ya” or the impossibly fleet licks of “Cherokee,” these guys flood the room with joy. Peter and Will Anderson play joyous jazz | Concert preview 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z This prompted Monk fans around the world to stare in perplexity at the same fat-suit with a different face. Natalie Haynes's guide to TV detectives: #10 – Adrian Monk 2012-05-29T10:35:38Z For weeks, they discussed everything from Thelonious Monk to the hazards of dating in San Francisco, a city of man-children, she complained. Siri Meets Dr. Phil 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z It helps to know this story, but it is not essential; such is the communicative power of Monk’s work. At 80, Meredith Monk Is Still Seeking Ways to Communicate 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z Jason Moran, the center’s artistic director for jazz, has a tribute to Thelonious Monk’s landmark concert in New York titled “In My Mind: Monk at Town Hall, 1959.” ArtsBeat: A Wide-Ranging Season at Kennedy Center 2014-03-04T16:04:28Z I consider it Monk’s single greatest studio recording. The Best of Thelonious Monk 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z As a documentary, "Monk With a Camera: The Life and Journey of Nicholas Vreeland" is as unassuming as its subject. 'Monk With a Camera,' though devoted, is blurry at its center 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Old Monk, which took over Babu Ji’s original space in the East Village, is decorated with a different set of photographic portraits of men. For Casual Indian Restaurants, It’s Party Time 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z And she continues to experiment: On “Songs of Ascension,” Ms. Monk added a string quartet to her core ensemble. ECM’s Catalog Is Finally Streaming. Here Are 21 Essential Albums. 2017-11-17T05:00:00Z In a recent interview with The New York Times, Ms. Monk, who is 72, spoke about the challenges of notating her unusual vocal techniques so that future generations could perform her work. Review: Meredith Monk Ends Carnegie Hall Run With Mystery and Mastery 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z The experimental troupe Monk Parrots explains on its website that it is named for the monk parakeet, a bird known for “adjusting to unusual climates.” Review: ‘Welcome to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,’ a Musical 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z Similarly, a version of the Thelonious Monk tune “Well, You Needn’t” felt plodding and in need of some kind of center. Music Review: Three Bands Turn Up at a Show for Two 2011-06-27T22:34:39Z Jon, to me, Monk and Lewis are two of the clearest influences on your style, even though their playing is so different. Jon Batiste and Wynton Marsalis Prize John Lewis, and Each Other 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z Elsewhere in the piece, he waits a little bit less than Monk would have between chords, erasing the potato-sack thwack of syncopation that typically defines the tune. For the First Time, Thelonious Monk’s Songbook Swings Solo 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, which also runs educational and outreach programs, has run its annual competition since 1987, the year Mr. Hill was born. Marquis Hill Wins the Thelonious Monk Competition 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z Then the pandemic hit and then we thought, "OK, well now there's a game changer, certainly for society at large, but for Monk, for this fictional character that really, really struggles." "I have more dragons to slay": Tony Shalhoub is just getting started 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z Often highly surrealist in manner, recalling imagery by Man Ray, it shows Ms. Monk alone in scene after scene, in successive costume changes and from different angles, with various effects, like trompe l’oeil or magnifying-lens. Dance Review: Meredith Monk at St. Mark’s Church 2012-11-20T22:38:02Z In the earlier, formative chapters, which are better than the book’s treks over the best-known, most public part of Oppenheimer’s adult life, Mr. Monk also illustrates how easily Oppenheimer’s snobbery trumped anybody else’s. Books of The Times: ‘Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center,’ by Ray Monk 2013-05-27T21:46:27Z On the final two nights of a 10-day festival here celebrating Monk’s 100th birthday, two of today’s great tenor saxophonists put their hands on his music. At 100, Thelonious Monk Gets a Hero’s Celebration 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z The gala will be broadcast by BET, and the semifinals will be streamed online at the Web sites of the Smithsonian Institution and the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz. ArtsBeat: Monk Competition Announces Semifinalists 2012-08-23T14:18:38Z The IDA's award for best short went to Johnny Burke and Andrew Hinton's "Tashi and the Monk," about a Buddhist monk running a community for orphaned and neglected children in India. 'Citizenfour' takes top honor at IDA Documentary Awards 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z For years he played a late-night set on Saturday nights at Smoke; this weekend he returns to the club as the featured performer, leading a quintet in a tribute to Thelonious Monk. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z The concert will include the finals of the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition, which this year is devoted to trumpeters. Bill Clinton to receive award for jazz advocacy 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z I actually went one year straight almost exclusively listening to Thelonious Monk. Jon Batiste and Wynton Marsalis Prize John Lewis, and Each Other 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z The Monk competition semifinals are many things: thrilling, strange, boring. Critic's Notebook: Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition 2011-09-13T06:51:04Z Monks’ caves adorned with stone crosses and arches dot the cliff face. My Armenia 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z With “Najwa” and “Alone: Reflections and Meditations on Monk,” to be released on the same day, he’s spreading love and gratitude. Pop and Jazz Fall Preview: 66 Albums, Shows and Festivals 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z The festival lineup included Louis Armstrong, Chuck Berry, Gerry Mulligan and Thelonious Monk, and Stern's still photographs of some of the musicians are a delight. Bert Stern 2013-06-30T15:44:49Z Lewis, author of “The Monk,” visited Villa Diodati that same momentous summer or that Shiloh was Byron’s nickname for Shelley? Review: ‘The Poet and the Vampyre: The Curse of Byron,’ by Andrew McConnell Stott The major focus, perhaps inevitably, was on Monk’s pen. At 100, Thelonious Monk Gets a Hero’s Celebration 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z Meredith Monk teams up with the Young People’s Chorus of New York for this White Light Festival performance in a typical Monkian vein, breaking down boundaries between voice and body. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z Lexington, North CarolinaThe defining Piedmont barbecue joint—known locally as The Monk's Place—chops its shoulders and slaw into an extraordinary mixture of sweetness and smoke. The South's Best Butt: Top 20 Barbecue Joints & 'Cue-pons 2012-05-23T20:50:07.077Z Collagelike shapes render an apropos figure, letter or phrase: “Soul at the Center,” “San Juan Hill,” Thelonious Monk in a red cap. The new hall sparkles with new art by Nina Chanel Abney and Jacolby Satterwhite. 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z Then he turned his attention to his idol, Thelonious Monk. 52 Years Ago, Thelonious Monk Played a High School. Now Everyone Can Hear It. 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z “Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie” is a sequel film to the hit Emmy Award-winning series “Monk” that ran on USA Network from 2002-2009. Adrian Monk returns in “Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie”: Watch the trailer 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z Monks and soldiers faced off on Thursday at one of the Dhammakaya temple gates - soldiers also raising their hands in prayer before pulling back from the chanting monks and devotees. Thai officials raise prospect of disrobing renegade monk 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z Mr. Paraiso — a musician and actor who has performed with many artists including Meredith Monk and Yoshiko Chuma — has long been connected with the world of experimental dance and performance, and with La MaMa. He Focuses the Eclecticism of La MaMa Moves! 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Monk gives very detailed accounts of F.B.I. surveillance of Oppenheimer and those around him. Books of The Times: ‘Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center,’ by Ray Monk 2013-05-27T21:46:27Z Meredith Monk, the director, choreographer and composer, presented her genre-bending pieces there regularly. Ellen Stewart, Off Off Broadway Pioneer, Dies at 91 2011-01-13T18:11:40Z In “Thelonious,” written, directed, and choreographed by Sarah Petronio, friends gather in a Parisian apartment to listen to a radio program about the jazz pianist Thelonious Monk. Review: ‘Thelonious’ is a Tap Tribute to a Musician 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Thelonious Monk seems to never go out of fashion. 15 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z For grown-ups, the Huckleberry Bar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, presents a double feature on Thelonious Monk — “Cry of Jazz” and “Thelonious Monk: Straight No Chaser” — as part of its Monday Night Movies series at 9 p.m. Weekend Miser: Free Fencing Lessons, Yoga and Ballet 2010-05-27T21:59:00Z Monk is inclined to be magnanimous about this folly. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z Starting in the early 1940s, Monk became a major architect of the style known as bebop — and, immediately, an iconoclast within it. At 100, Thelonious Monk Gets a Hero’s Celebration 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z Oh, and “The Art of Raising a Puppy,” by the Monks of New Skete, which I’m rereading because I’m about to get two new puppies. Amy Chua: By the Book 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z Or is it, rather — as Monk might say — a blessing and a curse? 2010-01-09T04:30:00Z Right from the top on Saturday afternoon, Katie Monks was gleefully sloppy. Review: Dilly Dally Rocks Out at the CMJ Music Marathon Without Keeling Over 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z Headliners Hancock and Shorter will perform with the Monk Institute of Jazz Performance Ensemble and Blanchard will use his slot to debut his new band, the E-Collective. Herbie Hancock, Aloe Blacc tapped for Playboy Jazz Festival 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z Thelonious Monk, Bill Evans — all of them I got to hear live. At 80, Joan Tower Says Great Music Comes ‘in the Risks’ 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Also a composer, radio D.J. and critic, he began playing the full Monk book a few years ago in marathon concerts. For the First Time, Thelonious Monk’s Songbook Swings Solo 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Oren’s first-place finish — part of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz’s gala at the Kennedy Center in Washington — includes a $25,000 prize and a recording contract with the Concord Music Group. Israeli Pianist Wins Thelonious Monk Contest 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z The top-rated cable channel, better known for "blue skies" series such as "Monk" and "Royal Pains," has begun running scripted dramas with sharper edges, starting with current hits "Suits" and "Graceland." USA Network is hoping for gold with its event series 'Dig' 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z I’ve photographed the rooms and gardens at Charleston Farmhouse, in the English countryside, several times, and also the house and gardens at Monk’s House, a few miles away, where Virginia and Leonard Woolf lived. The Book That Turned Annie Leibovitz Into a Photographer 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z “I absolutely didn’t want to do anything until the virus was over,” Ms. Monk said. This Couple Had a Hurried Ceremony — and Then Brain Surgery 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z Afterward, he gravitates to Thelonious Monk — dark, clamorous, discordant. Review | Walter Mosley is back with a whole new character to love 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z “The White Monk,” a title invented in the 19th century, refers to a landscape that remains unidentified. Review: The Mystery of the British Landscape Master 2010-06-04T14:00:00Z Was it Thelonious Monk who said that whenever he was on the brink of making some complaint about white folks a white person came along and proved him wrong? Edinburgh international book festival: writers' picks 2011-08-12T21:55:15Z They add to our appreciation of some of the genre’s mightiest geniuses—Coltrane, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, and Bud Powell. The Best Jazz Reissues of 2014 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z The best are the Monk ballads “Ugly Beauty” and “Crepuscule With Nellie”: slow and distorted, filthy and graceful. Playlist: Albums From Las Malas Amistades and Cooly G 2012-07-13T16:43:05Z The New Yorker critic Whitney Balliett once described Thelonious Monk's idiosyncratic timing and unexpected resolutions as feeling like "missing the bottom step in the dark". 50 great moments in jazz: The renaissance of Thelonious Monk 2010-04-29T15:28:00Z Similarly, Monk was described as being rightwing by his Liberal Democrat parents, but we heard nothing of his beliefs. University politics offers more than eccentric skulduggery 2012-08-10T17:42:26Z "I find it impossible to be dogmatic," Monk says. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z Here Ms. Waldman showed the same generally objective manner as Ms. Monk, shaded by wit, calm, naturalness and fun. Review: Meredith Monk and Anne Waldman, in Playful Collaboration 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z By 2006, when I saw him at the Thelonious Monk Competition in Washington, he was eminently impressive, but he kept waiting to make his move. 2010-02-11T08:10:00Z None of these tunes will be unfamiliar to fans of Monk, and the renditions are not radical. The Playlist: Kendrick Lamar Backs Up His Boasts 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z D’Arcy and Monk will be withdrawn from the London athletes’ village on Aug. 4. Australian swimmers sent home 2012-06-09T15:59:00Z The lyrics to "Monks" make it the weirdest song on "Channel Orange," a funky, dreamy break from the rest of the album. Fall with Frank Ocean: 'Monks' 2012-11-21T18:13:53Z A version of Thelonious Monk’s “ ‘Round Midnight” was the lightest of the soufflés: the rowdiest it got was Mr. Davis tapping his ride cymbal in a habanera beat during the song’s bridge. 2010-01-21T05:41:00Z It wasn’t a groundbreaking premise, and coincidentally or not, Mr. Breckman hadn’t worked in TV all that much since “Monk” ended in 2009. Review: ‘The Good Cop’ Emulates ‘Monk’ but Misses Tony Shalhoub 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z It was in that capacity that Mr. Keepnews, in 1948, wrote one of the first profiles of Monk, the influential pianist and composer, who at the time was relatively unknown. Orrin Keepnews, Jazz Producer and Record Executive, Is Dead at 91 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z Thig's brother Monk Wordsmith contributes several excellent verses and a haunting solo song with "The City Never Sleeps." Review roundup: five local, late-summer albums of note 2011-08-19T19:01:15Z Ms. Monk initially planned to feature at least one singer in the piece, but decided to focus on instrumental textures. Review: Ensemble ACJW Performs Meredith Monk’s Instrumental ‘Backlight’ 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z You can almost hear Adrian Monk saying, “It’s a gift — and a curse.” Television Review: ?Unforgettable? on CBS, With Poppy Montgomery - Review 2011-09-19T23:23:59Z Ms. Monk carefully plucked Neutron from her tank, held her in the air and pressed their faces together in what she called a “nose kiss.” The Secret Muse of the Downtown Scene? Turtles 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z Vinyl copies of Monk’s full discography were available for attendees to spin. At 100, Thelonious Monk Gets a Hero’s Celebration 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z Monk went into the studio with Keepnews the following month to record a solo album. The Best of Thelonious Monk 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z The better for soaking in Monk rapping by himself in storyteller mode, relating a tale of interviewing for a corporate job in a 34-story highrise. Music Monday: The Physics' "Three Piece" EP 2010-05-10T19:11:00Z At about 1:30 on Sunday afternoon she appeared on stage here at the National Museum of the American Indian during the semifinals of the 23rd annual Thelonious Monk Competition. C?cile McLorin Salvant Wins Monk Jazz Competition 2010-10-05T07:03:00Z Without Mr. Monk, many readers interested in Oppenheimer’s life might not have known that at all. Books of The Times: ‘Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center,’ by Ray Monk 2013-05-27T21:46:27Z The double album was a peek into Corea’s musical heart, containing songs he wrote about children decades ago as well as tunes by Mozart, Thelonious Monk and Stevie Wonder, among others. Jazz great Chick Corea with 23 Grammy Awards dies at 79 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z Part 2 of the idea, called “Organ Monk: Uwo in the Black,” with Nasheet Waits on drums instead, has just come out. Playlist: Albums From Las Malas Amistades and Cooly G 2012-07-13T16:43:05Z Award-winning pianist Moran’s trio Bandwagon is joined by a three-piece horn section in a multimedia program inspired by Monk’s famous 1959 Town Hall concert. Highlights of the Earshot Jazz Festival 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z Wakefield’s history is crammed with the era’s larger than life personalities: Norman Mailer, Thelonious Monk, Jack Kerouac and so many more. If You Love ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,’ You’ll Love These Books 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z In an essay accompanying the album, Ms. Monk describes the quizzical but deeply felt work as “a meditation on our intimate connection to nature, its inner structures, the fragility of its ecology and our interdependence.” The Secret Muse of the Downtown Scene? Turtles 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z “Fragments,” a 2006 concerto dedicated to Bach and Thelonious Monk, features an improvised piano solo. Black Composers Discuss the Role of Race 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z Monk's work offers a raw and witty record of The Catacombs, a rowdy Cape Town nightclub where he worked as a bouncer in the 1960s. African art around the globe 2012-11-30T12:10:54Z Sharing Thelonious Monk's view of jazz's more uncompromising stances, Ayler once said of his music: "If people don't like it now, they will." 50 great moments in jazz: The shortlived cry of Albert Ayler 2010-09-27T16:53:00Z Last week on “The Tonight Show” he was vague about everything except his involvement with the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, a nonprofit organization devoted to jazz education. Kevin Eubanks Begins Life After ?The Tonight Show? 2010-05-30T21:03:00Z Monk fruit sweetener contains 2 calories per teaspoon, which is low enough to be labeled as “zero calorie.” Perspective | As zero-calorie natural sweeteners such as stevia surge in popularity, here’s what you need to know 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z Since then he has found ways to adapt Bach, Beethoven, Aaron Copland and Thelonious Monk to the accordion, and makes a living teaching music and playing on advertising jingles. Showing Off the Accordion’s Hip Side 2013-06-26T21:57:23Z But one impressive project that bears accounting is Kimbrough’s new album, a six-disc collection on which he and his band cover every piece in Monk’s songbook. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z Members of the ensemble arranged selections by Chopin, Radiohead, Vienna Teng and Thelonious Monk, whose “Round Midnight” opened the program on a sultry, soulful note. Music Review: Nocturnal Voyages Through Many Eras and Textures 2011-06-14T22:22:12Z Mental illness has also served as an easy shorthand for “intelligent, yet difficult, yet quirky!” on shows ranging from “The Sopranos” to “Monk” to “House.” Salon Mix: 2016 was TV’s best year ever for mental illness 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z The trumpeter Dominick Farinacci joined the band at the end of the set, and in Monk’s “Four in One” the music got a little more muscled. 2010-01-21T05:41:00Z These heretofore-unreleased recordings — nearly all well-known Monk compositions — are not radically rearranged. The Year in Boxed Sets, From David Bowie to Weird Al 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z Here Mr. Wilson is in conversation with folk and religious traditions, and also with interdisciplinary artists like the choreographer-composer Meredith Monk. Dance Review: ?theRevisitation? at New York Live Arts 2012-03-16T21:12:29Z Vogler's background is rock, and he still performs in a group called Industrial Monk, but he says he was always the guy in the band who wanted to help with the set-ups and recording. The Hollywood Bowl's magicians of sound 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z “Oh, it will never be like it was when Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk were around.” Montreal Jazz: A Conversation With Andr? M?nard 2010-07-02T21:24:00Z Monk’s European tour was set to end in Paris and the show was recorded shortly before. ‘Rewind & Play’ Review: Thelonious Monk Dazzles Even When an Interview Falls Flat 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z This year marks Monk’s centenary, and, in early October, when the Kennedy Center staged a Monk night, Moran reprised portions of the Town Hall event replete with Stephenson’s tapes. This Kennedy Center director is making performance art out of jazz. Can he bring fans along? 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z On the program are string quartets by Philip Glass and Meredith Monk as well as the premiere of a cello solo by Caleb Burhans, played by Clarice Jensen, the ensemble’s artistic director. In the Garden, With Strings, at the Noguchi Museum 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z Television has more time than cinema for the complexities of plotting and the BBC version emphasises the subplot about the schemes of the villainous Monks to cheat Oliver out of his birthright. The classics revisited 2011-08-20T23:04:02Z But the title mainly alludes to Monk's insistence that he is trying to get to the heart of Oppenheimer, the man. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z Ditto for The High Monkey Monk, described by RichJames as "breathtakingly beautiful … shimmering and delicate … no idea what the song is about". Readers recommend: songs about monkeys and apes – results 2012-05-31T11:46:47Z What was long the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition has a new name and, as of Tuesday night, a winner. Russian Guitarist Wins Herbie Hancock Jazz Competition 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Over the past few years, small groups have occasionally tackled Monk’s complete songbook, the most referenced body of work in jazz. For the First Time, Thelonious Monk’s Songbook Swings Solo 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Jon Pareles wrote in a review in The Times that “Monk’s feet were as busy as his hands, and Mr. Blackwood’s alert camera crew zeroed in on them.” Michael Blackwood, Who Captured 20th-Century Artists on Film, Dies at 88 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z After the brilliant and intellectual bebop innovations of Monk, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Max Roach, in the nineteen-forties, hard bop tried to bring that brainy material back into a more local and humble perspective. The World’s Greatest Living Jazz Composer Celebrates His Eighty-fifth Birthday 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z Like many immigrants, the bright green Monk parakeets, also known as Quaker parrots, settled into a dark, scary enclave and turned it into a colorful neighborhood teeming with life even in the dead of winter. Parrots, nesting in peace, attract New York cemetery visitors 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z For me, it’s the most essential trove of Monk’s recordings that exists. The Best of Thelonious Monk 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z At Southampton Central station on my way to meet Monk, I look for the spot where Oppenheimer dropped his suitcase. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z Thelonious Monk’s 100th birthday in 2017 brought a flood of tributes, but the most monumental statement of devotion came a year late. The Best Jazz of 2018 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z “The Black Monk” was first staged at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, Germany, in January, yet much has happened since. Avignon Festival Gets Its Buzz Back 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z Ms. Monk was exploring similar conceptions of eternity in her theater pieces of the late 1970s, around the time that she acquired Neutron. The Secret Muse of the Downtown Scene? Turtles 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z And he comes closest to successfully Iyerizing an old piece of music on a version of Monk’s “Epistrophe,” on which he builds the song’s moving harmony into his flow without breaking pace. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-09-05T21:33:00Z One day after Thelonious Monk’s 100th birthday, Mr. Barron pays tribute with a set of music by the bebop legend. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z Even if you recognize the melodies, Mr. Distler’s recordings feel almost nothing like Monk. For the First Time, Thelonious Monk’s Songbook Swings Solo 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z On Jan. 19, she was announced as the winner of a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, whose beneficiaries have included Morton Feldman, La Monte Young and Meredith Monk. Chains Clink, Water Splashes: A Composer’s Beautiful Noise 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z “I’m actually working on some new pieces for them to play at Poisson Rouge,” Ms. Monk said in an interview on Monday. Months Full of Meredith Monk Performances 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z But what about the kind of real greatness, as in the case of Thelonious Monk, that is often about finding the music in between the notes? | The Triumph of Personal Style 2014-04-04T16:38:00Z Yet in Monk's ballad "Reflections," Green showed that he has more than just pyrotechnics at his fingertips, the pianist offering a melting tone and high-flown phrases that suggested the work of an accomplished vocalist. The maturing pianism of Benny Green 2011-05-20T14:27:56Z When Dylan cites the great music of the 20th century, calling out everyone from Thelonious Monk to Dickey Betts, "Murder Most Foul" almost becomes a waltz. "Murder Most Foul": Unpacking Bob Dylan's new epic, from Dallas 1963 to the pandemic of 2020 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z Monk delighted fans for eight seasons, with the most unfathomable murders around. Natalie Haynes's guide to TV detectives: #10 – Adrian Monk 2012-05-29T10:35:38Z Australian swimmers sent home Two members of the Australian Olympic swimming team, Nick D’Arcy and Kenrick Monk, will be sent home immediately after their events as punishment for posting photos widely deemed inappropriate on Facebook. Australian swimmers sent home 2012-06-09T15:59:00Z A hundred years after Monk’s birth, on Oct. At 100, Thelonious Monk Gets a Hero’s Celebration 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z He rubbed elbows again with Franklin, Miller, Monk, Cook, Prioress, Shipman, all noisily interacting, and made himself a storyteller, too. The racket of genius 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z She was alone in a room and rapping in a near-whisper over a looped choir of women’s voices, with hints of Björk and Meredith Monk. SXSW Came Back With Genuine Joy. Here Are 15 of the Best Acts. 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z The couple say that the most important purchase they've made with the substantial proceeds from "Monk" has been their artistic freedom. Brooke Adams learns the dirty truth of Beckett's 'Happy Days' 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z When Ms. Monk sings, the repetitive refrain sounds like “dying,” but the song heralds a rebirth as she descends the steps with ineffable little gestures of the hand. Dance Review: Multitasker Reverses the Aging Process 2011-06-10T23:56:26Z Monk has no plans to write another biography for a while. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z We follow Chris Monk and Joe Cooke of their respective university conservative associations as they enter an academic term that may well define their political careers. TV highlights 09/08/2012 2012-08-08T18:59:01Z Mr. Louis — a recent graduate of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance and the Berklee College of Music before that — isn’t wrong, and he isn’t alone. Pop: Jazz and Its Changing Apprenticeship Systems 2012-07-20T17:21:28Z You just finished filming a reboot of "Monk." "I have more dragons to slay": Tony Shalhoub is just getting started 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z The composer Meredith Monk will have a season-long residency that includes five concerts. Carnegie Hall Plans South Africa Festival in 2014-15 2014-01-29T16:31:50Z Many of the tunes were familiar, like Thelonious Monk’s “I Mean You,” or Miles Davis’s “So What,” covered by jazz musicians everywhere. The best jazz clubs in Paris 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z The other is a more gleaming portrait of Monk at work. ‘Rewind & Play’ Review: Thelonious Monk Dazzles Even When an Interview Falls Flat 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z The ever-innovative Meredith Monk, a composer, dancer, singer, choreographer, director and filmmaker, is celebrating the 50th anniversary of her professional career. A 50-Year Party, A Legend Revised 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z He fell to the floor in a seizure and was rushed to a hospital in Oak Park, Ill. Ms. Monk got a call from the ambulance. This Couple Had a Hurried Ceremony — and Then Brain Surgery 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z But Ms. Monk plans to expand their set list. Months Full of Meredith Monk Performances 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z Neither Cooke nor Monk were given much opportunity by the editors to explain why they were Conservative. University politics offers more than eccentric skulduggery 2012-08-10T17:42:26Z What Monk, now in her mid-60s, hasn’t experienced much is a piece built around her. Who’s making that racket? None other than Debra Monk, as Mrs. Miller. 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z The composer Meredith Monk is known for her uncanny ability to coax the human voice into sonorities both ethereal and startling. Review: Ensemble ACJW Performs Meredith Monk’s Instrumental ‘Backlight’ 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z Born in Ohio, Monk grew up in the Washington area and graduated from Wheaton High School. Who’s making that racket? None other than Debra Monk, as Mrs. Miller. 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Monk, the son of Thelonious Monk, is a hard-bop drummer of bounce and persistence, and a bandleader of conviction. Jazz Listings for Feb. 13-19 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z He deconstructs Thelonious Monk's "Epistrophy," gradually unfolding and weaving the familiar melody into his improvised runs. 9 of the year's best overlooked albums 2011-01-07T22:04:04Z Adams’s affection for Monk took root when he was a rabid, aspiring musical savant himself. Why NRBQ never really needed a hit record to measure its success 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z The actor Randall Nakano, the Monk, has far too much to do, prosaically stepping in to make sure we follow the story rather than encouraging the audience to trust the music. Chinese opera 'Dream of the Red Chamber' opens in San Francisco with much ambition, too little nerve 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z During the early months of the pandemic, many fans of Adrian Monk wondered how the quirky sleuth would fare in lockdown. Adrian Monk returns in “Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie”: Watch the trailer 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk were both born in October 1917. 10 Things to Do in NYC Now 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z His brother Monk Wordsmith hits a homerun with a succinct verse about his history in Seattle on the margins of the law as an intelligent rapper of above-average ability who enjoys a buzz. Music Monday: The Physics' "Three Piece" EP 2010-05-10T19:11:00Z Three early songs — “Monks and Raisins,” “Rain Has Fallen” and “The Secrets of the Old” — were uncomplicated and direct, with seemingly inevitable melodies and untaxing accompaniment. Music Review: Melissa Fogarty and Marc Peloquin at Bargemusic 2010-08-02T21:55:00Z Monks and Brahman holy men, hungry for new converts and turf, headed south and east from the subcontinent on merchant ships carrying religious objects with them. Art Review: In ‘Lost Kingdoms,’ National Treasures From Asian Countries 2014-04-10T23:05:18Z Born in Harlem in 1924, Earl “Bud” Powell was a prodigy who, along with his early mentor, Monk, was part of a cadre of players who re-imagined jazz in the 1940s. ‘Wail’: A biography of Bebop piano pioneer Bud Powell 2013-06-26T22:25:54Z He didn’t sound like Monk, but he understood the humor. “If You’re in the Song, Keep on Playing”: An Interview With Pharoah Sanders 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z He kept working well into his 80s, launching other jazz labels and reissuing multidisc sets by Monk, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Benny Goodman and other jazz giants. Orrin Keepnews, producer of milestone jazz albums, dies at 91 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z There was a conventional standard in the set: “My Foolish Heart,” in a breathtakingly sparse reading that called Thelonious Monk to mind. Music Review: Marc Ribot Trio at the Village Vanguard 2012-06-27T20:46:58Z Monks will be hoping that Scarborough audiences are bowled over by his production, set on the field of the Titpu Cricket Club. This week's new theatre 2010-07-09T23:06:00Z And the piano improvisation on Thelonious Monk’s “ ‘Round Midnight” is as bracing and unimprovable as a glass of ice water: each phrase pointing toward the next, without premeditation. Willie Nelson, Mali Music and Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z It’s also odd that Mr. Monk adopts a vaguely atomic metaphor to describe Oppenheimer’s life. Books of The Times: ‘Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center,’ by Ray Monk 2013-05-27T21:46:27Z Musically, Ms. Monk’s language is built on translucent harmonies needled, here and there, by microtonal slips and pinpricks. Review: Meredith Monk Ends Carnegie Hall Run With Mystery and Mastery 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z He was also a member of Monk's 10-piece, which performed memorably at Town Hall in New York in 1959 and rehearsed with the composer Edgard Varèse, then experimenting with new methods of composition. Eddie Bert obituary 2012-10-08T10:37:04Z But Monk maintained a rough piano style and wrote tunes to reflect it; his virtuosity worked on a level that was more tonal, and more physical. At 100, Thelonious Monk Gets a Hero’s Celebration 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z As Nat Trotman, the Guggenheim curator of performance and media, noted, it was part of a tradition that dates from the late 1960s, when Meredith Monk first performed in the rotunda. Solange Knowles Tears Down Barriers at the Guggenheim 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z Ms. Monks seems of two minds about that inevitable moment. The Carnegies: a Ghost Story 2010-08-12T00:28:00Z Despite the strengths of Monk's character, the episode's ending feels tacked-on and panders to a non-disabled audience, where a disabled character is "fixed." "The Simpsons" joins Hollywood in highlighting deaf characters – but it still feels like pandering 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Monk also writes at length about anti-Semitism and the kinds of Jews who practiced it, with Oppenheimer among them. Books of The Times: ‘Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center,’ by Ray Monk 2013-05-27T21:46:27Z And according to his index, Mr. Monk gives the meson its due on at least 21 out of 695 pages. Books of The Times: ‘Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center,’ by Ray Monk 2013-05-27T21:46:27Z "Some of these children come from horrific backgrounds," says Monks, "in an area blighted by insecurity bred of recent immigration." Strings attached 2010-10-02T23:03:00Z Its security was often provided by the gangster Monk Eastman, who would cut a notch in his club for every skull it cracked. Disney?s ?Newsies the Musical? Comes to Broadway 2012-03-02T18:00:09Z But Renaud is continuously dissatisfied with Monk’s answers to his questions: about not being understood by French audiences in the 1950s, about his wife Nellie’s role in his life, about being avant-garde. ‘Rewind & Play’ Review: Thelonious Monk Dazzles Even When an Interview Falls Flat 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z Fortunately, Lapine and Monk do suggest a solution to the evening’s biggest riddle. Review | She does bad so good: Debra Monk in ‘Mrs. Miller Does Her Thing’ 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Renaud asks for take after take, unable to improvise when seemingly thwarted by Monk’s responses. ‘Rewind & Play’ Review: Thelonious Monk Dazzles Even When an Interview Falls Flat 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z Monks chant as they arrive, then don costumes. Dance Review: Mark Morris Presents Purcell and Britten at Tanglewood 2013-08-01T21:50:31Z “Everyone that has come down to do this festival has been like, ‘Oh yeah, I’d like to study some Monk.’ At 100, Thelonious Monk Gets a Hero’s Celebration 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z Monk is now grown and has been profoundly deaf since birth. "The Simpsons" joins Hollywood in highlighting deaf characters – but it still feels like pandering 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z On Thursday the Gyuto Monks, a group of exiled Tibetan monks, were set to chant from a stage at the farm in Pilton, about 130 miles southwest of London. Megastars mingle with monks, music fans at Glastonbury Festival 2013-06-27T17:37:23Z The programs brought together composers as different as Charles Ives, Edgard Varèse, Meredith Monk and other mavericks who did not fit in with any school or style. Michael Tilson Thomas?s American Mavericks 2012-02-24T20:12:23Z He studied Stravinsky, Bartók and Elliott Carter at the New England Conservatory, and Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell and Duke Ellington in his spare time; the latter influences are fitfully clear on Bemsha Swing. 50 great moments in jazz: Cecil Taylor's jazz piano revolution 2010-04-14T11:25:00Z To my relief and pleasure, Iyer seems just as enchanted and enthralled by Hiroko as he was in “The Lady and the Monk.” Pico Iyer’s Japanese Love Story, from Spring to “Autumn Light” 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z Or, my personal favourite, Mr Monk Meets the Playboy, where a man is crushed to death by a bar-bell, which he has apparently dropped on his neck while exercising. Natalie Haynes's guide to TV detectives: #10 – Adrian Monk 2012-05-29T10:35:38Z Their musical knowledge is very eclectic and has opened a new world of sound to me, like Meredith Monk, who inspired the little bit of singing that we do together. When a Spice Girl Met a Contemporary Dancer 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z Renowned director Chen Kaige saw his literary adaptation “Monk Comes Down the Mountain” slip to third place last week, with $23 million in the seven days ending Sunday. Youth films, chick flicks dominate Chinese box office 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z When her off-kilter body hovers in the air for a moment before pouncing into a crunch, it is akin to Monk’s conception of rhythm and space. Review: ‘Thelonious’ is a Tap Tribute to a Musician 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z The piece, which aims to compare Christianity with other world traditions, includes artifacts used in several non-Western religious traditions and video of the artist’s spiritual music group, the Black Monks of Mississippi. Theaster Gates, Artes Mundi Recipient, to Share Prize money 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z Though he had been the dominant partner in recordings with the Modern Jazz Quartet, Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk that had begun several years before, it was from early 1956 that Rollins really took off. 50 great moments in jazz: The rise of saxophone colossus Sonny Rollins 2010-05-11T14:05:00Z This second, near Portland, Me., is the one Ms. Monks named Crescent Island in her book, to protect its residents’ privacy. The Carnegies: a Ghost Story 2010-08-12T00:28:00Z The situation would be slightly different if you were learning one of the elusive, idiosyncratic pieces of the composer and vocalist Meredith Monk. Can Meredith Monk Teach a Musical State of Mind? 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z Paul Jeffrey, a saxophonist who was a mainstay of the great pianist and composer Thelonious Monk’s last working group and later a prominent jazz educator, died on March 20 at his home in Durham, N.C. Paul Jeffrey, Saxophonist Who Worked With Thelonious Monk, Dies at 81 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z Their repertory runs from Thelonious Monk to Billy Strayhorn, but the best stuff happens on their own compositions, pared down to the absolute essentials, and missing nothing. On Piano and Bass 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z This set was one of the moments when the spirit of Monk’s piano playing got called up and shocked back to life in the air of the present day. At 100, Thelonious Monk Gets a Hero’s Celebration 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z So it’s meaningful that Mr. Irabagon won the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition in 2008, prestigious validation from the jazz establishment. Jon Irabagon Paints Tradition in New Hues 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z Monk recalls meeting the philosopher Karl Popper with a view to writing his biography. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z Better than any individual movements was how Ms. Monk spread the three singers around the stage: Triangles and horizontal lines all felt taut, implicit with happy drama. Review: Meredith Monk and Anne Waldman, in Playful Collaboration 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z Inside an isolation booth was a 1950s Steinway grand, in what looked like perfect condition save for some marks gouged on its lid — by Thelonious Monk. Plotting the Future of the Most Storied Studio in Jazz 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z It’s only in the past 15 years or so that Ms. Monk has turned some of her attention to preserving the pieces that she wants to survive her. Can Meredith Monk Teach a Musical State of Mind? 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z On the opening track, Mr. Lewis turns “Green Chimneys” — a Monk classic — into a reggae shuffle. The Playlist: Black Eyed Peas Get Serious About Injustice, and 12 More New Songs 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Though Meredith Monk is often spoken of as if she were a soloist, she’s very often a collaborator, and a marvelous one. Review: Meredith Monk and Anne Waldman, in Playful Collaboration 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z You could hear Philip Glass’s “Music in 12 Parts” at Leo Castelli Gallery, or Meredith Monk’s a cappella ululations at the Walker Art Center. Camille Norment Explores New Sonic Terrains at Dia Chelsea 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Thelonious Monk, I don’t try to copy him — not that I could. Jeff Goldblum Goes Wild With Wes Anderson and Thelonious Monk 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z That’s in line with the composer’s practice: Monk insisted on teaching his music to bandmates by ear, so they could catch his inflections and emphases. For the First Time, Thelonious Monk’s Songbook Swings Solo 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z His victory reinforces perceptions of the Monk Competition as a proving ground for artists already active professionally. ArtsBeat: Winners of the Thelonious Monk Competition Announced 2012-09-24T03:34:01Z But the guileless instrumental accompaniment here had a tendency to take the edge off the discomfort, which makes Ms. Monk’s best music so compelling as it teeters on the spidery line between alienation and revelation. Review: Meredith Monk Ends Carnegie Hall Run With Mystery and Mastery 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z The veteran keyboardist will perform alongside saxophonist Wayne Shorter, his longtime collaborator and former bandmate in Miles Davis' vaunted '60s-era quintet, and the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance Ensemble. L.A. Phil to join Playboy Jazz Fest again 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z From the beginning, he said, he loved Monk and Duke Ellington more than any other pianists. Masabumi Kikuchi Finds New Direction With ?Sunrise? 2012-03-25T01:43:04Z Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk were among the regulars at Minton’s Playhouse in the 1940s, and the spot is often credited as the birthplace of bebop. 36 Hours in Upper Manhattan 2014-02-20T19:20:26Z "After the war people such as Oppenheimer who had been responsible for creating the bomb wanted an international policy to make sure it would never be used again," Monk says. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z He welcomes a younger virtuoso each night, both finalists in last fall’s Thelonious Monk International Jazz Trumpet Competition: Adam O’Farrill on Friday, Marquis Hill on Saturday. Jazz Listings for Feb. 6-12 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Body and Soul emerged in fluttering runs against Amendola's brushes, a Thelonious Monk quote turned to blues and then rockabilly. Charlie Hunter ? review 2011-04-07T17:23:12Z There, he initiated a series of four performances, the first in September in collaboration with the musicians the Black Monks of Mississippi, which drew many residents from Washington. Using Discards to Build Art (and Rebuild a City) 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z Monk pleaded guilty to a single count of wire fraud and agreed to testify against Blagojevich in hopes of a reduced sentence. Ex-Blagojevich aide Monk faces sentencing today 2012-04-03T11:59:00Z Ms. Galás screamed at her concert; Ms. Monk cooed. Review: Meredith Monk, Still a Peerless Mixture of Otherworldly and Human 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Before his lens discovered rock-and-roll, Marshall continued to find inspiration in jazz musicians, including Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk. Rock photographer Jim Marshall dies at 74 2010-03-25T12:22:00Z Bassist Ben Williams, who released his debut album "State of Art" last year after winning the 2009 Thelonious Monk International Competition, was honored as the top up-and-coming artist. Sonny Rollins is triple winner at Jazz Awards 2012-06-21T06:16:04Z Following the Palo Alto gig, Monk released his last few studio albums on Black Lion Records, a British label, before fading into obscurity. 52 Years Ago, Thelonious Monk Played a High School. Now Everyone Can Hear It. 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z Sunday’s program moves closer to the present, with works by Julius Eastman, Meredith Monk and Charlemagne Palestine. Classical Music Listings for April 8-14 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Musicians play both unaccompanied and with a trio, with one Monk tune as a prerequisite. Critic's Notebook: Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition 2011-09-13T06:51:04Z He was discursive but never wasteful, creating a need for more and leaving phrases meaningfully unfinished; his solo on Monk’s “Trinkle Tinkle” made you not want to breathe until it was done. Music Review: School?s in Session, but Don?t You Dare Take Notes 2011-05-20T03:02:48Z Not only is Charleston less than an hour from Sissinghurst, but it is also near Woolf’s home, Monk’s House, and a number of famous Kent and Sussex gardens. The Bloomsbury Bohemians in the British Countryside 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z Around 80 U.S. musicians from 22 bands, including The Soul Rebels, Tank and The Bangas and Big Chief Monk Boudreaux, are performing in the event that runs through Jan 19. Festive New Orleans conga in Havana defies Trump Cuba policy 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z “The Monk”: A French-language melodrama in which the title character is beset with spiritual torments. Burke’s Dino Day| Weekend Preview 2013-03-06T22:30:26Z In “Hey-nyo,” a lengthy ensemble number that was the evening’s centerpiece, Ms. Monk charted numerous routes between clashing semitones, unsettling microtonal swoops and gentler harmonies. Review: Meredith Monk, Still Peerless at Shocking Serenity 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z But you can talk about Monk's music, its use of repetition, its drones, modal harmonies, its often wordless vocalising. A guide to Meredith Monk's music 2012-11-19T16:15:06Z A harmonically adventurous pianist whose primary influences were Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk, Mr. Tracey was self-taught and began his professional career as an accordionist while still in his teens. Stan Tracey, Who Helped Pluck British Jazz From American Shadow, Dies at 86 2013-12-10T04:13:07Z The collection also includes photos of political leaders and cultural icons like Jesse Jackson, Toni Morrison and Thelonious Monk. Library of Congress Acquires Harlem Photographer’s Collection 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z Monk curated the show, and at the same time he is its ostensible subject. Enter the artist's Berlin studio — without leaving L.A. 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z One of his inspirations has been Andrew Hill, whom he admires not just as a composer but as a pianist in the Thelonious Monk tradition. Critic?s Notebook: Four Young Pianists on the Rise in the Jazz Scene 2011-10-06T22:37:04Z Besides, all that was 1998 and this is now, and Monk turns 70 on Tuesday. A guide to Meredith Monk's music 2012-11-19T16:15:06Z Across six discs, the guitarist Miles Okazaki covers every known Monk composition, honoring the composer’s crooked style and getting his guitar to sound just as resonant and embodied as Monk’s piano did. The Best Jazz of 2018 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z A new friend was shocked, for example, that despite his aspirations to create experimental music, he didn’t know who Meredith Monk was. How a Pro Skateboarder Became an Apostle of Ancient Tuning 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z That much was established when he won the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition in 2009, at 24. Review: Ben Williams Steps Up on ‘Coming of Age’ 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz has unveiled that its annual gala and competition will be coming to Los Angeles this fall. Thelonious Monk Competition, gala returns to L.A. in November 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z Set in South Carolina in 1964, “The Secret Life of Bees” is a musical adaptation of the novel by Sue Monk Kidd about the relationship between a white teenager and her black caregiver. Atlantic Theater Company Season to Feature Isabelle Huppert 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z The Monk Competition runners-up, culled from a semifinal pool of 13 trumpeters, were Billy Buss, of Berkeley, Calif., and Adam O’Farrill, of Brooklyn. Marquis Hill Wins the Thelonious Monk Competition 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z Monks live in solitude in a monastery — it’s just them and God. Finding peace and faith in Assisi 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z On this album she strives to connect, in her accented English — and not only on a lovelorn ballad like “I Should Care” but also on sprightlier fare like “Nutty,” the Thelonious Monk tune. Music: A Style Lasting Beyond a Lifetime 2010-08-27T22:50:00Z Watts wasn't formally trained as a jazz drummer, but jazz musicians like Jelly Roll Morton, Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk were early influences. How Rolling Stones' Charlie Watts infused one of the greatest rock 'n' roll bands with a little jazz 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z The great oblique modernist Thelonious Monk did some strong, distilled work in the format, notably on “Alone in San Francisco,” recorded in 1959 and reissued by Concord last month. Lonely Voyage of Player,Piano and Audience 2011-07-02T04:00:25Z Mr. Akinmusire — who in 2007 won both the Thelonious Monk Institute trumpet contest and the Carmine Caruso International Jazz Trumpet Solo Competition — is hungry for outside information. CareFusion, Vision, Undead and Other Jazz Fests 2010-06-10T22:15:00Z It’s the dark night of the soul in “The Monk,” and we’re not speaking figuratively here. ‘The Monk’: Atmospheric potboiler goes from cool to hot 2013-03-07T21:42:55Z The ascetic Monk, for instance, is sent away with the music of high society, a soured Johann Strauss waltz. Review: Thomas Adès Leads the Philharmonic, and Björk Listens 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z Though Ms. Monk created the piece four years ago, this film is still a work in progress. Dance Review: Meredith Monk at St. Mark’s Church 2012-11-20T22:38:02Z And that one-two combination made for a high point of the set, not just because of Mr. Osby’s soulful finessing of the Monk theme or the band’s slashing authority with the original tune. Music Review: Greg Osby at the Vanguard, Without Nostalgia 2010-08-04T22:41:00Z Mattingly has internalized a wealth of musical styles: the gamelan-influenced, West Coast sounds of Lou Harrison; the propulsive cadences of John Adams; the vocal technique and poetic dramaturgy of Meredith Monk. Review: ‘Stranger Love’ Reflects the L.A. Philharmonic at Its Finest 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z Monk’s treatment of the image is as an antidote to an increasingly fragmented world. At 80, Meredith Monk Is Still Seeking Ways to Communicate 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z So we get two barely altered Thelonious Monk tunes; one mash-up of Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” and the standard “Body and Soul”; and a tune that flirts with fusion before head-faking into swing. Critics? Choice: New From Etheridge, Roky Erickson and Jacky Terrasson 2010-04-25T22:18:00Z There is a pronounced bent towards the gothic, with James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Charles Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer and Matthew Lewis's The Monk all being honoured as classics. The new Penguin English Library is a far cry from its 1963 version 2012-05-24T07:00:00Z The introduction to Mr. Monk’s “Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center” cites at least one of them: physics. Books of The Times: ‘Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center,’ by Ray Monk 2013-05-27T21:46:27Z I first saw Mr. James, 34, at the Thelonious Monk Jazz Competition eight years ago. Pop: José James’s ‘No Beginning No End’ 2013-01-18T23:37:45Z The institute that runs the competition changed its name this year to the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz, citing differences with the Thelonious Monk estate. Russian Guitarist Wins Herbie Hancock Jazz Competition 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Three finalists will compete on Nov. 15 at the Dolby Theater, followed by a gala concert honoring the producer Quincy Jones with the Monk Institute’s 2015 Herbie Hancock Humanitarian Award. Monk Institute Announces 11 Semifinalists for Jazz Vocals Competition 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z Despite it all, Monk’s still got a knack for solving even the toughest of problems, thus proving just how talented he is. Adrian Monk returns in “Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie”: Watch the trailer 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z This group’s performance with Thelonious Monk on “Evidence” is one of the greatest displays of bebop musicians communicating at a highly sophisticated level at extremely brisk tempos. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Bebop 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z Right after finishing the program in 2007 Mr. Akinmusire entered the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition, another signature Monk Institute initiative. Music: For a Team Player, the Solo Moments Are Secondary 2011-04-01T21:46:41Z Monk's roots as a singer and composer are in folk and rock; you can hear her singing Greensleeves here in her early 20s. A guide to Meredith Monk's music 2012-11-19T16:15:06Z The anchor was found six years ago by sea-cucumber diver Doug Monk, who formed Anchor Ventures with amateur historian Scott Grimm to bring it to the surface. Puget Sound anchor might be from 1792 expedition 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z For more information about the competition and the Monk Institute’s other programs, visit monkinstitute.org. Monk Institute Announces 11 Semifinalists for Jazz Vocals Competition 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z “And for some reason, Thelonious Monk and Duke Ellington just spoke to me. And even to this day, they speak to me.” 52 Years Ago, Thelonious Monk Played a High School. Now Everyone Can Hear It. 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z Graciously, he initiated a round of applause for his fellow hopefuls in the 25th-annual Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition, and another for the event’s unflappable house band. Critic’s Notebook: Jamison Ross Wins Thelonious Monk Contest 2012-09-24T22:05:15Z Mr. Mengelberg’s dissonant harmonies and unorthodox phrasing were reminiscent of Thelonious Monk, an acknowledged influence. Misha Mengelberg, Bold and Spirited Jazz Pianist, Dies at 81 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z This week it was Cyrille Aimée, a young French singer who now lives in New York and placed second in last October’s Thelonious Monk competition. Music Review: Jazz Improvisation, Casual but Tight 2010-12-23T21:55:52Z He offers a syncopated funk arrangement of “I Mean You,” by Thelonious Monk, and a chiming reharmonization of “You Are Special,” a waltz from the children’s show “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.” Review: ‘Aria,’ by Sullivan Fortner, Full of Assurance 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z He played with that group until it disbanded in 1962, then took that summer off to study the challenging and unconventional music of Thelonious Monk. Grachan Moncur III, Trombonist Whose Star Shone Briefly, Dies at 85 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z In one peculiar instance, they said, they approached the producers of the television show “Monk” in the mid-2000s because a tipster spotted a painting that looked like “The Concert” in the background of a scene. Isabella Stewart Gardner Heist: 25 Years of Theories 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Monks, clowns, American Indians and pharaohs also appeared in the auction lots, and a few bore the stamps of the celebrated designers Edgar Brandt and René Lalique. At the Met, Honoring Kimonos and a Scholar of the Same 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Monk is pretty implausible, though there were such things as black FBI agents in 1964: the first was appointed in 1919. Mississippi Burning: a civil rights story of good intentions and suspect politics 2013-04-10T09:34:57Z He recorded two first-rate albums with Monk in the late 1950s, “Brilliant Corners” and “In Orbit.” Clark Terry, jazz virtuoso with Basie, Ellington and ‘Tonight Show,’ dies 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z There’s been a spate of activity around Thelonious Monk’s legacy over the past two years; it’s impossible to keep track of everything. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z Eventually that process “will reach its Darwinian limits,” Mr. Monks explains, over a lunch of lobster chowder he cooked. The Carnegies: a Ghost Story 2010-08-12T00:28:00Z For the most part, this meant that Mr. Hébert embodied the sturdy constant and Mr. McPherson the churning variable — especially during “Dream of Monk,” which took on a clackety saloon bounce in triplet feel. Music Review: Fred Hersch Trio and Joe Lovano Jam at Village Vanguard 2013-07-26T19:55:54Z He was sometimes described as too bluesy for jazz and too jazzy for the blues, an original and unconventional combination of, say, Percy Mayfield and Thelonious Monk. Mose Allison, who sang the blues with whimsy and a twist of jazz, dies at 89 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z I also wish I could have included the proto-punk group the Monks, who often dressed like their namesakes, but the band’s great 1966 album “Black Monk Time” isn’t available on any streaming platforms. Dressed for Success: 7 Bands in Uniform 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z Known as the Monks Garden, the green space is connected to the exterior gardens that surround the museum’s new wing, designed by Renzo Piano. ArtsBeat: Time for Some Garden Work: Redesign Planned at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum 2012-04-13T17:25:48Z Robin Marantz Henig is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine whose books include “Pandora’s Baby” and “The Monk in the Garden.” The Ecstasy and the Agony of Being a Grandmother 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z The program also includes Meredith Monk’s “Nightfall” and excerpts from other of Ms. Monk’s works. Opera & Classical Music Listings for March 28-April 3 2014-03-27T22:25:27Z He began teaching himself Thelonious Monk's 1944 jazz standard "Well, You Needn't." Piano prodigy Joey Alexander, 13, talks about second album 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z Unlike Monk’s previous drummer, the formidable Ben Riley, Wright wasn’t deferential or even really respectful. The Best Jazz Reissues of 2014 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z “It’s like being a jazz musician trying to adapt Thelonious Monk because it’s so crazy in its structure,” he said. A New ‘Wuthering Heights,’ From Andrea Arnold 2012-09-30T04:27:19Z “What’s difficult is explaining the mentality of them,” Ms. Monk said of some early solos in a recent interview. Can Meredith Monk Teach a Musical State of Mind? 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z Shorter’s role in the jazz of the nineteen-sixties was similar to that of Monk in the jazz of the fifties. The Best of Thelonious Monk 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Last week's Sophie Monks Kaufman selected cinema's best scenes involving wind. Clip joint: Table flips 2012-06-27T11:52:35Z The film cuts away to America’s Cup sailboat races seconds after Monk starts playing; what’s more, and worse, the soundtrack also features an America’s Cup announcer calling the event and obscuring Monk’s music. A Classic Jazz Documentary That Honors and Insults the Art Form 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z Ms. Jonas’s engagement is followed by a series of performances by the American Contemporary Music Ensemble, performing concerts inspired by the minimalism, including works by Philip Glass, Steve Reich and Meredith Monk. The Kitchen Announces Spring Season 1462-03-28T05:00:00Z Monk and her singers chirrup and caw, clack and chant, sometimes evoking the cries of animals or the wailing of sirens, sometimes suggesting a music of the spheres. Songs of Ascension 2010-08-31T20:30:00Z As sensitive as he is dynamic, he plays in a gently articulated but deeply rhythmic style, unifying the influences of his two main idols, Herbie Hancock and Thelonious Monk. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z While Ms. Galás sings like a seething nightmare, Ms. Monk is dreamy. Review: Meredith Monk, Still a Peerless Mixture of Otherworldly and Human 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z “I’m a little shy, and essentially it felt like we were married anyway,” Ms. Monk said. This Couple Had a Hurried Ceremony — and Then Brain Surgery 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z Monk fruit sweetener contains little, if any, carbohydrates and zero sugar, so it doesn’t raise blood sugar levels. Perspective | As zero-calorie natural sweeteners such as stevia surge in popularity, here’s what you need to know 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z It was the first time Ms. Monks remembers thinking, “What if my daughter was ill like Lucy?” The Carnegies: a Ghost Story 2010-08-12T00:28:00Z So this young woman said, “You want to take Meredith Monk’s class?” For a Pioneering Artist, the Joy of Having Done the Work His Way 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z The record, “Monk’s Dreams,” is out on Friday. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z But there's never that bass like on "Monks," with that special rubber-snap, and those splashy cymbals. Fall with Frank Ocean: 'Monks' 2012-11-21T18:13:53Z I'll tell you how: his lovely moustache, and the fact that he could say "Don't break my heart", to Monk, and still sound manly. Natalie Haynes's guide to TV detectives: #10 – Adrian Monk 2012-05-29T10:35:38Z Monk is doubtful about his membership of that elite club but adds: "If there is a golden age, it is coming to an end." A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z Those albums offer delightful shocks, such as the “Name That Tune” trouble that Monk so gleefully provokes with his radical rearrangements of familiar melodies. The Best of Thelonious Monk 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Ray Monk recommends his biography over existing full-length accounts because it, uniquely, puts Oppenheimer's physics research at the centre of the narrative. Inside the Centre: The Life of J Robert Oppenheimer by Ray Monk – review 2012-11-16T10:06:01Z Referencing that title, Monk thought, “Just Us/Justice” — which requires “Evidence.” 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Bebop 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z One of the best stories, “Good Monks,” makes use of a local landmark: an abandoned lime pit — desolate, lurid, ruined — known as the “Lost Planet.” Stories That Look Askance at the American Midwest 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Oppenheimer's tragedy, as written by Monk, is Greek: it is the drama of a man destroyed by his own hubris. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z But then her mother became fearful, certain that Ms. Monks was filled with poison from the unpasteurized milk her husband insisted the family drink. The Carnegies: a Ghost Story 2010-08-12T00:28:00Z But he was unexpectedly beaten to the punch by the guitarist Miles Okazaki, who on Aug. 15 released his Monk compendium, “Work,” on Bandcamp, without fanfare or warning. For the First Time, Thelonious Monk’s Songbook Swings Solo 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Among them: the playwright Sam Shepard, the composer Meredith Monk and the transgender actress and Warhol superstar Candy Darling. La MaMa to Release Expanded Version of Digital Archive 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z Time was, you named a show “MacGyver” or “Monk” or “Lucifer” and you were introduced to those people right away. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 3 Premiere: Danglin’ Jimmy 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z The album is only available on vinyl for now, but one tune — the flouncy Monk classic “Nutty” — was posted online in two parts. The Playlist: Lady Gaga Dives Into a Fresh Era, and 15 More New Songs 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z Two of his four Grammy Awards were for best album notes, for releases by Evans and Monk. Orrin Keepnews, Jazz Producer and Record Executive, Is Dead at 91 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z He later brought flinty cool to “The Old Country,” a lonesome tune associated with Nancy Wilson, and teased out the remorse in Jon Hendricks’s lyrics to “Ask Me Now,” by Thelonious Monk. Review: Ed Reed Pours Out His Feelings at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z But he has also explored traditional jazz materials – particularly Charlie Parker's and Thelonious Monk's – with affection, empathy, vision and his own kind of eloquent lyricism. 50 great moments in jazz: Anthony Braxton swims against the tide 2011-04-13T14:57:21Z And “Shacked Up” is a slow-drag country waltz that milks the half-step dissonance in its melody, as if Bob Wills were tipping his hat to Thelonious Monk. Critic’s Notebook: California Dreaming Adds Sweep to Bill Frisell’s ‘Big Sur’ 2013-06-23T21:08:56Z So when Ms. Monk told a co-worker about her attraction to Mr. Gerdes, 42, he promptly invited them both to a local bar. This Couple Had a Hurried Ceremony — and Then Brain Surgery 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z He was an adviser to the International Association of Jazz Educators and chairman of the academic council of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz. Clark Terry, Influential Jazz Trumpeter, Dies at 94 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z The Blackwoods — Christian shooting, Michael directing and producing — skillfully set their documentary to Monk time, rather than cutting up his flow into bite-size pieces. In the Documentaries of the Blackwood Brothers, Great Artists Explored 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z American viewers — those who have aged into the less desirable demographics, anyway — will also notice the family resemblance of this Holmes to our own eccentric-genius police consultants in shows like “Monk” and “The Mentalist.” | 'Sherlock': The Latest Sherlock Hears a ?Who? 2010-10-21T22:24:00Z At first, Ms. Waldman and Ms. Monk seemed to belong to opposite species. Review: Meredith Monk and Anne Waldman, in Playful Collaboration 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z For more critical viewers, though, that may not outweigh the show’s forced eccentricities, or the way in which ideas and motifs from “Monk,” “House,” “The Mentalist,” “Numbers” and other series clank around in plain sight. Television Review: ‘Perception’ With Eric McCormack on TNT 2012-07-08T18:32:52Z Some actors luxuriate in the Mississippi vowels while others, such as Debra Monk's Big Mama, decline to offer any discernible accent at all. Cat On a Hot Tin Roof – review 2013-01-18T10:08:04Z Included at Goldblatt's request, photographs by Cole and Monk expand the exhibition's field of view. African art around the globe 2012-11-30T12:10:54Z I mean, a real guilty pleasure of mine is “Monk.” Jerry O'Connell talks murder, dog hoarding, Drake & "Real Housewives" 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z Here’s an issue of Monks Pond, the folded-and-stapled literary magazine that he put together at the monastery in the mid-sixties. Thomas Merton and the Eternal Search 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z They're all things that used to be called "extended vocal techniques" but Monk makes them sound completely natural, central, and essential. A guide to Meredith Monk's music 2012-11-19T16:15:06Z On “Piano Arrangements of Famous Spirituals,” the themes are given stark and regal settings far closer to Thelonious Monk than anything lurking on the fringes of the easy-listening category. The Music of Don Shirley Is More Resilient Than Any “Green Book” Cliché 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z Kimbrough took his stewardship of the jazz tradition seriously: his final and most ambitious release, in 2018, was “Monk’s Dreams: The Complete Compositions of Thelonious Sphere Monk.” Jazz Musicians Unite With One Goal: Celebrating Frank Kimbrough 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z Monk Payton asks, "What happens when you have a sort of male character of color who was also subscribing to this same kind of logic?" Remember her? Why your favorite Black female characters are being "summarily dismissed" 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z In the early 1940s, a few young guys — Thelonious Monk, Charlie Christian, Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker among them — invented the new music. The Harlem Jazz Club Where the Spirit of Billie Holiday Lives On 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z “He started to roll my underwear around in his fingers,” Ms. Monk recalled. 5 Women Accuse the Architect Richard Meier of Sexual Harassment 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z Fittingly, Earshot presents 10 Seattle pianists at Town Hall playing one solo Monk piece each, plus a “10-tet” organized by pianist Wayne Horvitz, which will play transcriptions of Monk’s 1959 “Live at Town Hall” concert. 17 highlights of the four weeks of Earshot jazz fest 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z This all-star big band covers the jazz waterfront, from Jelly Roll Morton to Thelonious Monk. 31 best bets at Bumbershoot 2012 — plus ticket info 2012-08-30T19:01:05Z Jazz’s most influential showcase of rising talent, the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition, returned on Monday from a hiatus, crowning the 24-year-old Israeli pianist Tom Oren as this year’s winner. Israeli Pianist Wins Thelonious Monk Contest 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z And, like Coco Chanel’s Little Black Dress or Thelonious Monk’s “ ’Round Midnight,” it’s the attribute that makes the highball so eternal, so universal, so open to variation. In the watering holes of Tokyo, the highball reigns supreme 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Adams’s Easter-grass hair blew around him and his mouth hung open, snapping occasionally into a cavernous grin as he stabbed aggressive block chords on the piano like his hero, Thelonious Monk. Why NRBQ never really needed a hit record to measure its success 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z This was especially true of the selection of miniatures with which Ms. Monk opened, including a two-part solo made up of dreamy humming and rhythmic tongue clicks. Review: Meredith Monk Ends Carnegie Hall Run With Mystery and Mastery 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z The process of writing this book, with you and Buddha Monk as co-authors, seems to have yielded a different book than most artist biographies or oral histories, which don’t usually feature one primary source’s voice. Rise and fall of a rap folk hero: Secrets of Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s tragic, wild life 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z So are the extended vocal techniques learned from experimental precursors like Meredith Monk as well as borrowed from throat singers and screaming shepherds. ‘Toxic Psalms,’ in the Prototype Festival, Explores Ethical Choices 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z Doctorow has died: http://t.co/5Dlr3MH73m Thelonius Monk said: "A genius is most like himself." What E.L. Doctorow meant to President Obama, fellow authors 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z Of course, we also see Monk partake in some comedic shenanigans and even go bungee jumping — an attempt at facing his fear of heights. Adrian Monk returns in “Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie”: Watch the trailer 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z Last year, when I attended a festival at Duke University celebrating Monk’s 100th birthday, I was reminded how deeply in touch Monk was with the elements of dance — the physicality and weight of motion. For the First Time, Thelonious Monk’s Songbook Swings Solo 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Randy Weston was the pianist for his own “African Sunrise Suite,” sometimes explosive and sometimes puckish as the music evoked Africa, the Caribbean and hints of Thelonious Monk. Music Review: Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra at Symphony Space - Review 2012-01-22T23:03:12Z But Monk's music isn't redolent of a nostalgic past, it is not an escape from today's world. A guide to Meredith Monk's music 2012-11-19T16:15:06Z Friday’s program also pays homage to two cultural icons unusual in any symphony hall: Andy Warhol and Thelonious Monk. Latest Seattle Symphony ‘[untitled]’ offering mixes Warhol and Monk 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Shalhoub is best known for his Emmy Award-winning television role on “Monk.” ArtsBeat: Tony Shalhoub Joins ‘Act One’ Cast 2013-12-08T18:01:13Z He held out the last syllable, “ing,” for five and a half beats, echoing the jangle of Monk’s pianism, and expecting everyone to get it. 2010-01-08T03:51:00Z Click above to listen to Bemsha Swing Link to this audio The drummer swings, and the theme sounds like Monk's rhythmically quirky conception of bebop. 50 great moments in jazz: Cecil Taylor's jazz piano revolution 2010-04-14T11:25:00Z Don’t quit before you get to Part 2; Monk’s solo is a seminar in his language of chiming dissonance, off-the-cliff arpeggios and fistfuls of clanking harmony. The Playlist: Lady Gaga Dives Into a Fresh Era, and 15 More New Songs 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z The only cover is of saxophonist Steve Lacy's hypnotic Image, which sounds like a Thelonious Monk theme in very low gear. Blink: Twice – review 2012-07-12T21:34:00Z That unity is what Monk tries to achieve for his subject, and that Oppie tried, and largely failed, to achieve for himself. Inside the Centre: The Life of J Robert Oppenheimer by Ray Monk – review 2012-11-16T10:06:01Z It's about Monk not being able to concentrate because of a piano playing next door, which no one else can hear. Natalie Haynes's guide to TV detectives: #10 – Adrian Monk 2012-05-29T10:35:38Z Mr. Distler was discussing the latest and most ambitious recording of his career: a full-on reckoning, alone at the piano, with the monumental songbook of Thelonious Monk, roughly 70 pieces in all. For the First Time, Thelonious Monk’s Songbook Swings Solo 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z The Monk institute started the competition in 1987, and for its first three years it focused on rising pianists. Israeli Pianist Wins Thelonious Monk Contest 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z When I tried to leave I realized why – every gate but the open one I had strolled through was closed and read “Access for Monks Only.” Frugal Traveler: Fast Cars, Medieval Villages 2011-05-31T19:19:09Z “Listen to Monk’s music and you hear that Caribbean bounce,” Alexander told Charles. The Syncopated Sounds of Old San Juan Hill at the New Geffen Hall 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Meredith Monk stepped out onto a circular stage, her stride paced yet fluid. At 80, Meredith Monk Is Still Seeking Ways to Communicate 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z At the front of the crowd, Chong stood listening, transported to his earliest days in theater, when he was a member of Monk’s company. For a Pioneering Artist, the Joy of Having Done the Work His Way 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z Multi-disciplinary artist Meredith Monk, for instance, clarifies that a Nauman performance at the Whitney was not in fact his last, as is commonly repeated. What is an artist? Peter Plagens' 'Bruce Nauman' illuminates 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z Viking announced Tuesday that Sue Monk Kidd's "The Invention of Wings" is scheduled for release Jan. 7. New book coming by 'Secret Life of Bees' author 2013-06-11T19:24:10Z Lacy’s style of composing and arranging owed something to Monk, Ellington and Samuel Beckett. CareFusion, Vision, Undead and Other Jazz Fests 2010-06-10T22:15:00Z Monk's meeting with Furlong helped to broker meetings with publishers and agents that in turn led to a commission from Jonathan Cape. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z The streets and their evocative names shimmer “like the first notes of a Monk solo.” John Edgar Wideman’s Stories Vividly Evoke Life in Pittsburgh and Many Other Places 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z Playing with Mr. Sorey here, he often reduced Monk’s song themes to scaffolds and wisps; his own chiming, splintery swing feels attested to Monk’s long shadow, even in a context dominated by free improvisation. At 100, Thelonious Monk Gets a Hero’s Celebration 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z He followed the jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk on tour in Europe. Michael Blackwood, Who Captured 20th-Century Artists on Film, Dies at 88 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z But Mr. Monk takes a needlessly mechanistic approach to a man who has seemed much more interestingly human in other, keener studies. Books of The Times: ‘Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center,’ by Ray Monk 2013-05-27T21:46:27Z “Rewind & Play” dazzles because it is and will remain a wonder to witness Monk seemingly discovering his compositions again and again, his fingers conjuring, his right foot etching rhythms. ‘Rewind & Play’ Review: Thelonious Monk Dazzles Even When an Interview Falls Flat 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z Monteverdi's Flying Circus was what Christopher Monks, the artistic director of the Armonico Consort, pitched to the suits: a follow-up to Armonico's immensely successful Fairy Queen, which had combined Purcell with puppetry. Monteverdi's Flying Circus 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z Eggers befriended an entrepreneurial Yemeni American, traveled with him to Africa, and last year published a book about the coffee industry and the Yemeni civil war called “The Monk of Mokha.” Review | Dave Eggers’s ‘The Parade’ is a heartbreaking work of staggering cynicism 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z “Right now I’m trying to be very patient,” Ms. Monk said, “and just exploring the possibility of this music, and in what form I pass on this music. I feel like I’m in process.” Can Meredith Monk Teach a Musical State of Mind? 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z You could see Monk or Miles at the Bohemian Caverns and mingle with other artists at gallery openings in Adams Morgan. The not-so-simple comeback story of pioneering artist Sam Gilliam 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z The earliest of them captures a major moment in Davis’s career: the 1955 performance, in an ad-hoc sextet featuring Thelonious Monk, finds Davis performing three numbers. Miles Davis’s Boldest Heights 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z The overarching theme has to do with music and human movement: a genuine preoccupation for Mr. Hollenbeck, who has long collaborated with the body-focused performance artist Meredith Monk. Music Review: A Distinctive Voice, No Matter Who Is Performing 2011-04-26T21:30:10Z She won the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition in the mid-2000s, then put out a run of acclaimed releases, but Parlato has not made a new album under her name in years. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z He later started another label, Landmark Records, perhaps best known for a pair of early albums by the Kronos Quartet: “Monk Suite: Kronos Quartet Plays Music of Thelonious Monk” and “Music of Bill Evans.” Orrin Keepnews, Jazz Producer and Record Executive, Is Dead at 91 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z Every song in Wednesday’s set was a Hersch original, with the exception of “Let’s Cool One,” a Thelonious Monk tune he had tweaked with a brisk new arrangement. Music Review: Fred Hersch Trio and Joe Lovano Jam at Village Vanguard 2013-07-26T19:55:54Z Their first set began with a loose reading of the ruminative melody to “Monk’s Mood” and ventured quickly into abstraction, dispatching with the standard ideas of what it takes to interpret Monk’s music. At 100, Thelonious Monk Gets a Hero’s Celebration 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z Coltrane kicked his habit and joined Thelonious Monk’s quartet; that band had an instantly famous six-month run at the Five Spot, and Coltrane’s playing, under Monk’s influence, rapidly rose to heroic stature. Louis Malle’s “Elevator to the Gallows,” and Its Historic Miles Davis Soundtrack 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z The set also bears sonic witness to the musical partnership that saw Monk through the sixties, with the tenor saxophonist Charlie Rouse. The Best of Thelonious Monk 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z “I didn’t learn what the normal way is to do things: Monk is my normal way to do things,” Mr. Moran said after the festival, describing his formative years. At 100, Thelonious Monk Gets a Hero’s Celebration 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z Born in Ethiopia, Ms. Jernberg wove a keening Ethiopian folk song into her own assemblage of virtuosic vocal tricks: yelps, croaks and hums evocative of birds and of early Meredith Monk. Review: Resonant Bodies Festival Blends Freedom With Radiance 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z Instead, Monk accepted an invitation to teach an undergraduate class on Wittgenstein at Southampton and later successfully applied for a lecturer's job there. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z From the university, I got there by hiking Monks Trail, which is marked by strips of orange fabric. 2 weeks, 1 country and a world of wonders in Thailand 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z “Spinnin’,” his take on the Lee Morgan tune “Speedball,” was a winsome, convincing romantic complaint; “Too Many Things,” based on Thelonious Monk’s “Think of One,” was an awkward critique of consumerism. 2010-01-08T03:51:00Z The band, whose roster is one-third Jewish, also delivers a keening pair of Hanukkah songs and soulful readings of lesser-known Christmas tunes by Thelonious Monk and Sun Ra. The Week Ahead: Dec. 16 — 22 2012-12-16T07:40:07Z When you hear any recording from any note that you happen to dip into, you go, “Oh, that’s Thelonious Monk.” Jeff Goldblum Goes Wild With Wes Anderson and Thelonious Monk 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z This is a strange way for Mr. Monk to compete. Books of The Times: ‘Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center,’ by Ray Monk 2013-05-27T21:46:27Z Héctor Elizondo diagnoses the problem, and becomes Monk's new therapist, and Monk learns, a little, to cope with change. Natalie Haynes's guide to TV detectives: #10 – Adrian Monk 2012-05-29T10:35:38Z He died after filming season 6, so the opening episode of season 7, Mr Monk Buys a House, is dedicated to his memory. Natalie Haynes's guide to TV detectives: #10 – Adrian Monk 2012-05-29T10:35:38Z He got a lot of stuff from being around Monk. “If You’re in the Song, Keep on Playing”: An Interview With Pharoah Sanders 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z The albums that Monk recorded for Riverside cemented his reputation for striking originality. Orrin Keepnews, producer of milestone jazz albums, dies at 91 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z The Thelonious Monk Institute's educational branch offers full scholarships to its students and has fostered a wealth of up-and-coming jazz talent. Thelonious Monk Competition, gala returns to L.A. in November 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z The guitarist, who is a mamber of the Madden Brothers with brother Joel Madden, was previously engaged to Australian actress Sophie Monk. Cameron Diaz, Benji Madden engaged? One report says so 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z And while he fashioned a beautifully restive intro to “Monk’s Mood,” his solo didn’t address the song’s internal architecture, occasionally settling for a rote blues lick. Joey Alexander, an 11-Year-Old Jazz Sensation Who Hardly Clears the Piano’s Sightlines 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z The screeching Monk over-enunciating the lyrics — “And you’ve just had some kind of mushroom, and your mind is moving low” — is hilariously far out. Review | She does bad so good: Debra Monk in ‘Mrs. Miller Does Her Thing’ 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z But Monk's music is richer and stranger than any of those stylistic labels. A guide to Meredith Monk's music 2012-11-19T16:15:06Z On Friday his trio, the Bandwagon, plays the music of Thelonious Monk. Jazz Listings for March 13-19 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z Even when the announcer falls silent and the music is heard clearly, the boat races continue onscreen; Monk is seen for just a few intermittent moments of his four-minute performance. A Classic Jazz Documentary That Honors and Insults the Art Form 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z Monks bred St. Bernards in the late 17th century for work and to aid travelers overwhelmed by harsh winter conditions. That Shaggy Mutt? At Dog Museums, Our Drooling Companions Are the Stars 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z The achievement in Lapine’s efficiently staged production revolves chiefly around the performance of the primly coifed and outfitted Monk, who nails the impersonation in a way that’s both funny and sad. Review | She does bad so good: Debra Monk in ‘Mrs. Miller Does Her Thing’ 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z The vault continues to spill open and give us new, old Thelonious Monk. The Playlist: Lady Gaga Dives Into a Fresh Era, and 15 More New Songs 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z Ms. Monk is observed working out the details of the performance in rehearsal and on site, not so much imposing a plan as coaxing form out of the materials — human, musical and architectural — at hand. DVDs: New DVDs, ?Word Is Out? and ?Meredith Monk? 2010-05-30T01:53:00Z Monk’s musical DNA had already taken root by the time he started recording for Riverside, and that connection gives rise to one of the most startling performances in the boxed set. The Best of Thelonious Monk 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Though Oppenheimer left behind nearly 300 boxes of papers, Mr. Monk says they contain “remarkably little that gives away anything of an intimate nature.” Books of The Times: ‘Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center,’ by Ray Monk 2013-05-27T21:46:27Z “Monk in a Red Robe,” dated 1304, depicts a robed figure that harks back to the eighth century. Review: Groundbreaking Picture of China 2010-11-19T12:36:00Z When Monk looked through 296 boxes of private papers, he found "an abundance of material that testifies to his many-faceted brilliance … but little that shows Oppenheimer exhibiting ordinary emotions with his fellow human beings". A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z During an afternoon of conversation earlier this summer, Ms. Monks spoke matter-of-factly about her macabre childhood, describing an escape into music and writing and fantasy. The Carnegies: a Ghost Story 2010-08-12T00:28:00Z The hardiness of Monk parakeets is little known in cities, where they are popular as fluffy, humorous pets. Parrots, nesting in peace, attract New York cemetery visitors 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z The pattern is annoying, but fortunately the dance finds its stride when music by Meredith Monk kicks in. Dance Review: Cloud Gate 2 at the Joyce Theater 2012-02-11T01:06:45Z The rift between North and South was caused by political, economic and moral issues — and it is the latter, particularly, that Sue Monk Kidd explores in her new book, “The Invention of Wings.” ‘The Invention of Wings’: waking to the evils of slavery 2013-12-31T22:20:55Z Mr. Monk’s own book mentions “Thirty Years of Mesons,” a lecture delivered by Oppenheimer in 1966 to the American Physical Society. Books of The Times: ‘Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center,’ by Ray Monk 2013-05-27T21:46:27Z Monk’s music is definitely humorous, but I don’t think many people hear that in Coltrane. “If You’re in the Song, Keep on Playing”: An Interview With Pharoah Sanders 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z In fact, Dr. Monk said that forming a community is essential for the mental health of the mother and the physical health of the baby. It Takes a Village to Care for a Baby. And, for a Lucky Few, a Luxury Hotel. 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z The program, titled “Monk’s Sphere,” is the first of many tributes this season to the innovative, influential composer and vocalist Meredith Monk, who is celebrating 50 years of performing and creativity in New York. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Nov. 21-27 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z As well as Gibbs's own inimitably harmonised originals, the show featured a good deal of rearranged Thelonious Monk, Carla Bley and Charlie Parker. Mike Gibbs ? review 2011-02-17T17:07:40Z This is the closest Monk gets to anything interpretative; the rest is abstract and elusive. Songs of Ascension 2010-08-31T20:30:00Z The act," writes Monk, "seems charged with symbolism: Oppenheimer as the jealous queen leaving a poisoned apple for Snow White, the 'fairest of them all' whose beauty and goodness are admired by everybody. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z In a statement accepting the prize, Ms. Monk paid tribute to the actress Lillian Gish, who created it through a bequest. Meredith Monk Wins the Gish Prize 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z In addition to the over 1,000 artists showcasing their works, a number of talks will be held with artists, including Meredith Monk on Oct. In Transit Blog: Calendar: Coming Events in London; Los Angeles; Berlin 2013-09-06T17:00:47Z He grew up idolizing Monk and reworked Monk’s language of halting gestures and piquant dissonance, eventually rendering his own approach. At 100, Thelonious Monk Gets a Hero’s Celebration 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z What makes this especially disappointing is the contrast with the music: sections of Meredith Monk’s “Facing North,” vocalized on Friday by none other than Theo Bleckman and Ms. Monk herself. Review: ‘Climate Control,’ Where Hot and Cold Mix It Up in a Pas de Deux 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z He's much longer-lined and fluid by the time he gets to the Latin-flavoured The Rent; the penultimate Whammies is a guttural-toned whirl; and Lacy encores on a lyrical account of Monk's Reflections. Steve Lacy: November 2010-06-10T22:29:00Z His second night in the city, he parked in front of the Five Spot Cafe on St. Marks Place and rushed inside with his horn to hear Thelonious Monk. At 80, Billy Harper’s Rhapsodic Saxophone Is Still a Towering Force 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z Hinting at voices as varied as Meredith Monk, Kate Bush, Maria Callas and the guy who sang "Surfin' Bird," it delivers singular vibrations. On 'Vulnicura,' Bjork is heavy and at her most personal 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z The glimmer of absolution in the diagnosis didn’t change life completely, Ms. Monks says in her study in the turret overlooking her father’s old house. The Carnegies: a Ghost Story 2010-08-12T00:28:00Z Finally, Ms. Waldman and Ms. Monk closed the program in duet. Review: Meredith Monk and Anne Waldman, in Playful Collaboration 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z But it’s not exactly a Buddha Monk memoir. Rise and fall of a rap folk hero: Secrets of Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s tragic, wild life 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z Even Jazz at Lincoln Center, whose most intimate stage, Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, is named for Gillespie, devoted more programming this month to Monk. At 100, Thelonious Monk Gets a Hero’s Celebration 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z By 2012, he was the broad favorite to win the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition, focused that year on the drums. Justin Brown Is a Monster on Drums. Now He’s a Bandleader, Too. 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z On “Nutty,” he veers toward the traditional — intimating Monk’s stride-piano technique by way of early ragtime guitar, then running through a rising sequence of diminished chords like a bebop guitarist. For the First Time, Thelonious Monk’s Songbook Swings Solo 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z What gaps remained for Mr. Monk to fill? Books of The Times: ‘Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center,’ by Ray Monk 2013-05-27T21:46:27Z “Although Monk’s recorded piano sound is percussive,” Mr. Pareles went on, “the film shows him using the sustain pedal within single notes, using extraordinary finesse.” Michael Blackwood, Who Captured 20th-Century Artists on Film, Dies at 88 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z Ms. Monk’s gorgeous “Gotham Lullaby” gives the final section a tinge of melancholy. Dance Review: Les Ballets de Monte Carlo at the Joyce Theater 2012-02-18T01:14:18Z At Berkeley in the 1930s he built up a distinctively American school of physicists and made contributions to astrophysics that, Monk argues, would have won him the Nobel prize had he lived longer. Inside the Centre: The Life of J Robert Oppenheimer by Ray Monk – review 2012-12-16T00:05:05Z That cohabitant, who has served as a longtime companion to, and creative inspiration for, Ms. Monk, is a three-toed box turtle named Neutron. The Secret Muse of the Downtown Scene? Turtles 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z Monk also has an idea of what biography should not be like. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z The festival, Monk@100, was produced by Duke University, and studiously programmed by Mr. Iverson and Aaron Greenwald, the director of Duke Performances. At 100, Thelonious Monk Gets a Hero’s Celebration 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z Duke Ellington or Thelonious Monk — it’s a different sound that takes you somewhere else. In the Picture: Atlanta, Africa and the Past 2011-07-03T00:28:47Z "The pandemic hit and then we thought, 'OK, well now there's a game changer, certainly for society at large, but for Monk.'" "I have more dragons to slay": Tony Shalhoub is just getting started 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z He wanted to pay dutiful tribute, while also using the Monk songbook to expand his own approach to the guitar. For the First Time, Thelonious Monk’s Songbook Swings Solo 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z I wouldn’t mind revisiting Monk in a TV movie or something like that, but so far we haven’t gone the Kickstarter route. Getting Pumped: Tony Shalhoub Talks New Movie Pain & Gain 2013-04-26T09:45:36Z In a time of postmodern splay, Monk is here to stay. At 100, Thelonious Monk Gets a Hero’s Celebration 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z A treasure chest of jazz is being rereleased this week: “The Complete Riverside Recordings” of Thelonious Monk, a fifteen-disk set of his recording sessions, in the studio and live, for that seminal label. The Best of Thelonious Monk 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z In October he helped organize the Monk@100 festival in Durham, N.C. The Bad Plus Greet the New Year With a New Lineup 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z The dining room is always full, and family members such as Monk are prepared to take the reins. Why North Carolina’s barbecue scene is still smoldering 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z Still, I’m not so sure Mr. Distler is right that Monk would come out hard against him. For the First Time, Thelonious Monk’s Songbook Swings Solo 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Quotations from sources as varied as Thelonious Monk, Mark Twain and Dr. Seuss appear on screen, imbuing the movie with unearned significance. ‘Jake Squared,’ a Midlife-Crisis Romantic Comedy 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z Members of both ensembles performed the work, which quotes Debussy, Ravel and Thelonious Monk in its three sections. Music Review: Ensembles Resonate With Each Other 2011-06-06T21:45:25Z This year’s twelve semifinalists in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition — culled from 237 entry tapes submitted — yielded a range origins and dispositions. C?cile McLorin Salvant Wins Monk Jazz Competition 2010-10-05T07:03:00Z The set includes a batch of the most rip-roaring recordings Monk ever made: live at the Five Spot with a quartet featuring the bluff, virtuosic tenor saxophonist Johnny Griffin and Haynes on drums. The Best of Thelonious Monk 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z But playing alone has become the root of his overall language, more so than it was for his heroes like Ellington, Monk and Andrew Hill. Albums From Banks, Lee Brice and Matthew Shipp 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z Nonetheless, Mr. Monk believes Oppenheimer was intimidated by the broad sophistication he found at Harvard and later Cambridge. Books of The Times: ‘Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center,’ by Ray Monk 2013-05-27T21:46:27Z Monk is not a political artist, but she closes “Indra’s Net” on a utopian note, idealistic but persuasive in its earnestness: a reminder, if not a wish, necessary early in her career, and especially today. At 80, Meredith Monk Is Still Seeking Ways to Communicate 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z Hancock will be among the judges for the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition. Concert to note anniversary of Monk Institute 2011-08-11T12:13:14Z It occupies the site of San Juan Hill, a vibrant Black neighborhood before the First World War, the birthplace of Thelonious Monk, which during the 1940s attracted increasing numbers of Puerto Rican migrants. A Notoriously Jinxed Concert Hall Is Reborn, Again 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z That book, billed as “the first full-scale biography” of Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist, gave Mr. Monk good reason to worry. Books of The Times: ‘Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center,’ by Ray Monk 2013-05-27T21:46:27Z Installed atop and around them are framed and sculptural works by about 20 other artists, whose work has in some way fed into Monk's own. Enter the artist's Berlin studio — without leaving L.A. 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z And Ms. Monks was trapped alone with her. The Carnegies: a Ghost Story 2010-08-12T00:28:00Z Dr. Monk said a place like Boram is what every new mother deserves: “If I could design the ideal, this is what everyone would have postpartum, and they would know they were getting it.” It Takes a Village to Care for a Baby. And, for a Lucky Few, a Luxury Hotel. 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z The beautiful and rarefied setting of both Oxford and Cambridge add an unhelpful patina to the stories of students like Joe Cooke and Chris Monk, who both featured in the programme. University politics offers more than eccentric skulduggery 2012-08-10T17:42:26Z Thelonious Monk’s centennial has meant a nonstop feed of new albums exploring his repertoire. The Year in Boxed Sets, From David Bowie to Weird Al 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z Monk made his drummers—and, for that matter, almost all of his musicians—rise to the occasion. The Best of Thelonious Monk 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Last year she won the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition, becoming the first female instrumentalist to do so. New Albums by Riff Raff, Black Bananas and Phox 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z For example, Scouts are the endurance runners, while Monks are into the martial arts. How this ‘Zelda’-playing, ‘Harry Potter’-loving nerd built a loyal fitness community 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z In 1993, he was named cinematographer of the year by the Australian Cinematographers Society for the film “You Seng,” or “Temptation of a Monk.” Andrew Lesnie, Cinematographer of ‘Lord of the Rings,’ Dies at 59 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z So this new work about British comedy heroes The Two Ronnies in a collaborative show, Double Act Repeated, with fellow conceptualist Jonathan Monk, is a nice surprise. This week's new exhibitions 2010-06-25T23:06:00Z “The Black Monk,” about a man’s descent into madness, is another one better left to the page, as is “Vanka,” a static story packed with narration. Theater Review: ?Chekhovek,? With 9 Chekhov Plays, at ArcLight Theater 2012-02-08T22:18:57Z Nighthawks … photographer Billy Monk worked as a bouncer in Cape Town. The best photography books of 2012: an alternative selection 2012-12-21T16:01:33Z It’s a strange, abrupt ending, but there’s solace in Ms. Monk’s voice: it’s like having a friend in the room. Dance Review: Les Ballets de Monte Carlo at the Joyce Theater 2012-02-18T01:14:18Z Monks’ yellow robes, freshly laundered, hung on railings to dry, and a woman napped at her desk. Lost in China 2010-12-24T19:55:00Z He emerged with a taste for the tormented sounds of Thelonious Monk. Marilyn Stasio Plays Bad Santa in This Holiday Crime Column 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Molten and bluesy, Mr. Barron is equally indebted to the tweaked angularity of Thelonious Monk and the graceful parlance of Hank Jones; he’s one of jazz’s unassailable piano gurus. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z The series, with Tony Shalhoub as Adrian Monk, was one of the earliest examples of what has since become common fare: programs built around characters who are distinctive misfits. 2010-01-09T04:30:00Z Music from the Meredith Monk’s latest work, which had its premiere last March, makes an appearance over three nights, performed by her own, all-female vocal ensemble. 8 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z It is as if the composer, choreographer and director, Meredith Monk, is slowly tuning our senses in readiness for her work. Songs of Ascension 2010-08-31T20:30:00Z Their father, Bobby, was a boxer who hung out with the jazzmen Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk; Monk later became Robert’s godfather. Kool & the Gang Get the Dance Floor Moving. Have They Gotten Their Due? 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z Monk Space is quickly becoming an essential place for anyone who wants to keep up. Music ensembles Hocket and Sakura bathe Monk Space in an acoustical glow 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z There were, unfortunately, no female composers other than Ms. Monk represented in the orchestra’s concerts. Music Review: American Mavericks, with San Francisco Symphony, at Zankel 2012-04-01T18:48:27Z “The Monk family requested that they would like to use the name in other directions, and we decided that we would abide by their wishes,” Thomas R. Carter, the institute’s president, said in an interview. Israeli Pianist Wins Thelonious Monk Contest 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z Monk concludes that the "sense one has of him being almost disembodied is connected with his enigmatic elusiveness and his inability to make ordinary close contact with the people around him". A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z Dr. Monk said this type of care or tradition exists in many places around the world in addition to South Korea. It Takes a Village to Care for a Baby. And, for a Lucky Few, a Luxury Hotel. 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z Toyed with Sonic Youth, with rap, then heard Monk's Round Midnight from her brother's bedroom and demanded to learn everything about jazz. Rewind TV: Bert and Dickie; Amy Winehouse – The Day She Came to Dingle; Absolutely Fabulous; Line of Duty; Twenty Twelve 2012-07-28T23:06:01Z It all came together powerfully in the set closer, an arrangement of Thelonious Monk’s “Evidence” that also appears on the album “Obatalá,” from 1988. Music Review: Jerry Gonzalez & the Fort Apache Band at the Blue Note 2012-05-25T22:30:07Z But what’s even more remarkable is Monk’s ability, throughout the track, to extract a sound out of the piano that’s like nothing else. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Jazz Piano 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z When the pianist Monty Alexander stopped by the apartment Charles was sharing with another student, Aaron Diehl, he schooled Charles on a fresh way to hear the music of Monk. The Syncopated Sounds of Old San Juan Hill at the New Geffen Hall 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z “Monk,” which references Nina Simone and Carter Stanley, sounds like nine chords and the truth. Review: On the rebound, Madeira finds the power in healing 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z Monk Takes Leek in Middle of Battlefield 6th century: According to legend, Saxons are slaughtered after the future Saint David advises the Welsh to place a plant on their helmets to distinguish friend from foe. Style Invitational: Songs without end (or beginning) 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z There are not many wild hairs in this novel, but before reading it I’d never heard a sunset compared to Thelonious Monk’s “Crepuscule with Nellie.” A Virus Upends the World in a Sweeping New Novel 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z All of this was apparent in the first set's opening piece, Thelonious Monk's "Jackie-ing," its rhythmic twists and turns inspiring Green to unreel brilliantly sleek, fast-moving lines. The maturing pianism of Benny Green 2011-05-20T14:27:56Z He’s just picked up a Thelonious Monk record at Isaacson’s store. R.E.M.’s Peter Buck needed a new label. The one he chose won’t take your credit card. 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z Pullman also reopens another famous incident, in which Thelonious Monk was said to have selflessly taken a heroin rap for Powell. ‘Wail’: A biography of Bebop piano pioneer Bud Powell 2013-06-26T22:25:54Z If “On Behalf of Nature” placidly lacks the avant-garde force of Ms. Monk’s early work, the role is one she seems born to play. ‘On Behalf of Nature,’ Meredith Monk’s Wild Side 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Later that decade, Coltrane also worked briefly in an adventurous and now legendary quartet with pianist Thelonious Monk. 50 great moments in jazz: John Coltrane's giant step for improvisation 2010-08-09T15:49:00Z “When I first got her I had a lot of dreams about her, very strange dreams,” Ms. Monk said of Neutron. The Secret Muse of the Downtown Scene? Turtles 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z Monk, a pianist, was more than a decade past his most famous recordings and near the end of an unfruitful run at Columbia Records when his manager got the request from Mr. Scher. 52 Years Ago, Thelonious Monk Played a High School. Now Everyone Can Hear It. 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z He discovered the recipes as part of his Monks in Motion project, which looked into the travels and influence of the English Benedictine Monks after they were forced into exile. Very merry seventeenth century punch recipe found in Yorkshire 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z Yet Monks trims some of the Christian allegory, and finally Kai arranges the fragments of the word he's been looking for. The Snow Queen ? review 2010-12-16T22:15:03Z Photograph: Billy Monk/Stevenson, Cape Town and Johannesburg A few weeks ago, I rounded up some of the best photobooks of 2012, but the ones I left out have been nagging at me ever since. The best photography books of 2012: an alternative selection 2012-12-21T16:01:33Z As she practiced, accompanied by Krivchenia, she tried to remember all the lyrics; the band’s engineer, Dom Monks, was secretly recording. The Ordinary Brilliance of Big Thief 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z A concert on Jan. 8 will feature a dozen musicians reinterpreting material from the album “Solo Monk,” in various configurations. NYC Winter Jazzfest to Honor Thelonious Monk 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z Ruggedly experimental free-jazz, classical, South African townships bop, Hammond-organ blues – Oxford pianist Hawkins splices it all, with idiosyncratic tributes to Thelonious Monk and Art Tatum thrown in. Best jazz albums of 2012 2012-12-13T22:01:22Z No, someone has given Mr. Monk a sex change and replaced the humor of his show with a simmering romance. Television Review: ?Unforgettable? on CBS, With Poppy Montgomery - Review 2011-09-19T23:23:59Z His trio was joined by tenor saxophonist Ravi Coltrane, who played on a couple of tunes by his father's former boss, Thelonious Monk. A lot of chitchat — and some music — at Playboy Jazz Festival 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z The amalgam of influences — Monk, Mr. Hancock and Mr. Pérez’s own Panamanian inflections — make for a bristling, rhythmically adventurous record that still holds up 21 years later. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z His piano performances are influenced by Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk ballads, gospel hymns and old African songs; they’re placid and persistent, gentle but deep. Enveloping Sound of a Serene Soul 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z |
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