Monk’s place in the jazz scene has been grossly distorted as a result of high-powered publicity work. He has written a few attractive tunes, but his lack of technique prevents him from accomplishing ...

Local sculptor Yoshitomo Saito’s new bronze installation, Bemsha Swing in Denver, refers to the Thelonious Monk composition “Bemsha Swing,” in a funny way: via his own mystification at reading the ...

Terri Lyne Carrington joins students on the drums as they play the Thelonius Monk song "Bemsha Swing" at Berklee's Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice class. (Jesse Costa/WBUR) When Samantha Spear ...

Pianist Fred Hersch starts off this live set unaccompanied, playing a version of Thelonious Monk’s “Bemsha Swing” in a ‘smarty-pants-deconstructed-chamber-post-modernism’ style. As we all know, Monk ...

"His technique is fantastic," host Marian McPartland says of their session together. "On the show, he played fast and furious, and also with quiet sensitivity. He's certainly going to be a great name ...