The name change is as fitting as it is surprising — Hancock has served as the board chairman of the Monk Institute for the last 15 years. For more than 30 years, the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz ...

An international jazz ensemble performed two polished concerts, including cameo sit-ins by New York drummer Lewis Nash, during the third anniversary weekend of The Nash concert venue that is named in ...

Washington, DC - The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz will tour Vietnam November 22 - 30 under a Cultural and Speakers program sponsored by the US Department of State's Bureau of International ...

The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz is moving to the UCLA campus. It will partner with UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music to offer a new master’s degree program in jazz. Pianist and composer Herbie ...

“Lisa Henry has what it takes to get the attention of an audience. Her rich voice and cool phraseology will soak into your soul.” – Jazz Ambassador Magazine Wednesday, Feb 26 8pm $16 adv, $20 door ...

Josh Johnson, a saxophone player, received a Thelonious Monk compilation for Christmas in seventh grade. Little did he know that years later, he would be developing his repertoire as a jazz musician ...

The roots of jazz reach down into the Mississippi Delta and the West Coast of Africa. Now, the many sounds that make up modern jazz can be heard virtually anywhere in the world. The Thelonious Monk ...

Thelonious Monk Institute Presents Newark's Top High School Musicians in Concert with Jazz Greats Jon Faddis and Tim Green, June 21 at NJPAC's Center for Arts Education Thelonious Monk, Jr., Chairman ...

Nicholas Payton joins the Monk Institute students for a benefit concert Wednesday, March 11 on the Loyola campus. As Davy Mooney's two-year tenure in the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance ...

Thelonious Monk, the incomparably influential jazz composer and pianist, would have turned 100 today, and across the country a healthy range of commemorative tributes is already underway. But the ...