Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser
A documentary film about the life of pianist and jazz great Thelonious Monk. Features live performances by Monk and his band, and interviews with friends and family about the offbeat genius.
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Thelonious Monk: American Composer
Through a more personal and conversational style of documentary, Thelonious Monk – American Composer was the first fully rounded portrait of this terribly misunderstood man and musician. He was the pianistic ringleader o
Thelonious Monk: Paris 1969
Live archive release from the Jazz legend. Thelonious Monk Paris 1969 is a fascinating and important late-career document of the legendary Jazz pianist and composer in performance with his Quartet at the Salle Pleyel con
Jazz Icons: Thelonious Monk Live in '66
Thelonious Monk features two intimate concerts filmed three days apart in Scandanavia in the Spring of 1966 with a legendary quartet that includes drummer Ben Riley, bassist Larry Gales and tenor saxophonist Charlie Rous
Thelonious Monk Quartet at Salle Pleyel, Paris, 1969
Thelonious Monk entered a long phase of introspection and cancelled his concert schedule after 1968. He disbanded his quartet with Charlie Rouse, stopped recording for a while, and only performed sporadically. This compl
Jazz Icons: Thelonious Monk Live in France 1969
In the fall of 1969, the great French bebop pianist Henri Renaud brought Thelonious Monk into a television studio in Paris. Just Monk, a grand piano and two cameras - no audience, no sidemen, no emcee, no clock-watching
Thelonious Monk Quartet Playing at the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels in 1963 - Part 1
In this 1963 concert filmed at Brussel’s Palais des Beaux-Arts, Monk performs with his famous quartet consisting of himself on the piano, Charlie Rouse on tenor sax, John Ore on the double bass, and Frankie Dunlop on Dru
Monk & Pannonica: An American Story
Paris, 1954. The story of the meeting, known thanks to the fortuitous discovery of a forgotten notebook, full of notes and photographs, between a white British aristocrat, Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter, writer and