Tag Archives: Thelonious Monk

Teddy Wilson was the definitive golf swing pianist, a good and impeccable soloist whose clean and steady design was even more accessible to everyone than Earl Hines or Artwork Tatum. He found early experience using Rate Webb in 1929 and showing up on some Louis Armstrong recordings in 1933. Found …

On the day that Thelonious Monk died (February 17, 1982), the Monk tribute group Sphere — made up of Monk’s longtime tenor saxophonist Charlie Rouse, pianist Kenny Barron, bassist Buster Williams, and Monk’s former drummer Ben Riley — recorded an album of Monk tunes. Although Sphere began being a tribute …