Monk, Thelonious

An ambitious student named Danny Scher booked the jazz great at Palo Alto High School in Northern California. A recording of the event gathered dust for five decades. Source

The most storied label in jazz turns 80 this year. Hear the music that shaped its legacy. Source

A quiet Sunday night in 1953. The Dodgers had just won the pennant. J.F.K. and Jacqueline Bouvier had just married. And four titans of bebop came together in a dive bar for a rare jam session. Source

Miles Okazaki, on guitar, and Jed Distler, on piano, take divergent approaches to the most referenced body of work in jazz. Source


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