Monk's Music: Thelonious Monk and Jazz History in the Making (Roth Family Foundation Music in America Imprint)
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | yesterday
Thelonious Monk The Life and Times of an American Original Robin D. G. Kelley (Simon and Schuster; 588 pages; $30) In Michael Ondaatje's wonderful novel "Divisadero," the jazz of Thelonious Monk is likened to "imprisoned birdsongs." Leave it to a superb...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
By Tad Hendrickson Hannah Rothschild talks about her new documentary, 'The Jazz Baroness,' to be shown on HBO2. Check here for show times. Jazz has always had its fair share of characters. Usually they are musicians, but occasionally nonmusicians enter the story thread. Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter was the pre-eminent patron of the New York City jazz scene back in the '50s and '60s bebop heyday....
Bright Lights After Dark (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
You can tell that if you were a girl on a date with Clint Eastwood and he wanted to sleep with you, there wouldn't be a thing you could do about it. And I don't mean in some smug James Bond way or furious date rape way, I mean he'd play the perfect music at all the perfect times, speak eloquently of Thelonious Monk and Charles Mingus and when he finally smiled wide enough to show his teeth, you'd find...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Neil Young Buy: Lala.com Genre: Rock Song: On the Way Home (Live at Massey Hall 1971) Album: Live at Massey Hall 1971 (Deluxe Version)...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nobody can deny the distinctive signature of {{Thelonious Monk = 9507}}'s music. Written for simple piano, bass, and drums, it is a remarkable blending of melody, harmony, and rhythm. Now, expand his conception into a quintet setting and the challenge as Monk would say, to "lift the bandstand," presents itself to the musicians and arrangers...
Forum Blue And Gold (Free subscription) | yesterday
Just a few of the things in the cornucopia that I am thankful for today: I’m thankful that the biggest problems with my favorite team is they keep blowing part of those 30 point leads they build (29 other teams want that problem). Kobe Bryant. Living in a place where I am wearing shorts and flip flops [...]
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | yesterday
Juicy and jammed with side men and side dishes, "The Jazz Baroness" has all the meat and the trimmings that make it a thanks-worthy special this holiday season on Nov. 25 on HBO2. And what better to sip at this service than vintage Rothschild. That's what viewers get in this un-be-bop--believable docu which details the Jew and the Monk: the backbeat of Baroness Pannonica ("Nica")...
Rifftides (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
If Paul Desmond had lived, he would be 85 years old today. The last birthday he celebrated fell on Thanksgiving, 1977. For the occasion, Devra Hall cooked a turkey dinner for Desmond and her parents, Jim and Jane. She took...
The Daily Beast (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
A smart new documentary from HBO, The Jazz Baroness, captures the many sides of the jazz pianist. There is a beneficent heat wave of attention returning to the subject of Thelonious Monk. It helps us through the blizzard of fluff perpetually focused...
Blogcritics: Video (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
The story of an unlikely friendship between an heiress and one of the great figures in jazz music, Thelonious Monk.
PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
John Hollenbeck recombines the familiar in compositions that are startlingly new. His new Eternal Interlude is among the best jazz of 2009. Here, he explains his quirky, fresh methods. Jazz—or creative/improvised music if you prefer to take an artsy stance—doesn't get much more incandescent than Eternal Interludes, the latest recording by the John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble. Hollenbeck's...
[CinemaRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: HBO Bio-Pic Revisits Life of Jazz Patron/Civil Rights Pioneer Although Baronness Pannonica Nica - Rothschild (1913-1988) was born into a very wealthy European...
The Millions (A Blog About Books) (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
WNYC’s Jazz Loft Project series is absolutely essential listening: a portrait of New York’s bygone bohemia, complete with resident genius Thelonious Monk. And a book version is out this week from Knopf – a great gift idea for jazz lovers.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Tears started rolling as soon as the saxophone legend Theodore "Sonny" Rollins took the stage, and continued for much of the 90- minute performance.
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
After more than 25 years in private pediatric practice in Concord and Carlisle, Dr. Nancy Hendrie of Concord left behind the restrictions of HMOs in 1994 in order to provide medical care to children adopted from China through Waltham-based Wide Horizons for Children. When regulations in China proved to be just as frustrating, however, she turned her focus to Cambodia.
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victoriaburton2009 | 10/29/2009
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