In November of 2000 aboard a ship adrift on the Atlantic Ocean, reedman Joe Temperley joined pianist Junior Mance's Floating Jazz Festival Trio in what proved to be a perfect setting for a tribute to ...

The path by which legendary pianist and composer Thelonious Monk rose to infamy was a long and trying one. So unique and progressive were Monk's gifts that it took the jazz community what now seems ...

WASHINGTON, DC, OCTOBER 4, 2010. Jazz vocalist competitors Cyrille Aimee, left, and Charenee Wade, right, celebrate with Cecile McLorin Salvant, center, who won the 2010 Thelonious Monk International ...

Saint Lazarus of Murom was a Greek, born at Constantinople. In his native city he became a monk at the High-Mount monastery under the Elder Athanasius Diskotes, builder of many monasteries. Eight ...