Blue Monk

Abbey Lincoln's 'Straight Ahead' is an album recorded on February 22, 1961 with Eric Dolphy, Coleman Hawkins, Max Roach and others and released the same year by Candid.

This day (February 19, 2017), in New York City, died Larry Coryell American jazz fusion guitarist…

This day ( February 17, 1982), in Englewood, New Jersey, died Thelonious Sphere Monk, an American jazz pianist and composer.

Bill Evans' 'Conversations with Myself' is a solo album recorded on February 6, 9 & May 20, 1963 and released the same year by Verve.

Carmen McRae's'Carmen Sings Monk' is a studio album recorded on January 30 and February 1, 1988 and released in 1988 by Novus.

Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Abdullah Ibrahim, Carlos Ward, Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Stan Getz, Flora Purim, Dave Brubeck, Benny Goodman, Wes Montgomery, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Chick Corea, Roy Haynes, Miroslav Vitous, Thelonious…

Thelonious Monk's 'Live at the It Club' is a live album recorded on October 31 and November 1, 1964 and released the same year by Columbia.

Thelonious Monk's 'Thelonious Alone in San Francisco' is his second solo album, recorded on October 21 and 22, 1959 and released the same year by Riverside.

Cannonball Adderley, Thelonious Monk, Count Basie, Nat King Cole, Illinois Jacquet, Ray Brown, Roy Eldridge, Stan Getz, Coleman Hawkins, Oscar Peterson, Flip Phillips, Herb Ellis, Papa Jo Jones, Art Blakey, The Jazz Messengers, Dave…

Thelonious Monk Trio' is Monk's first studio album recorded on October 15 and December 18, 1952; September 22, 1954 and released the same year by Prestige.

This day (October 4, 1999), in New York, died Art Farmer, an American jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player.

This day (July 2, 2002), in Indianapolis, Indiana, died Ray Brown, an American jazz double bassist,

This day (May 31, 1972), in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is born Christian McBride, an American jazz bassist.

This day (May 16, 2010), in Manhattan, New York, died Hank Jones, an American jazz pianist and composer.