"Thelonious would have loved what Gary is doing - really learning the music and then doing his own thing with it." - Mrs. Nellie Monk. A great website from Gary Wittner, an acknowledged authority on the music and life of Thelonious Monk, Gary has presented concert/lectures on Monk at many universities and clubs throughout the USA and Europe and has recently released a CD where he is joined by Howard Johnson (tuba, contra-bass clarinet) and Bruce Ditmas (drums). It includes 3 compositions by Thelonious Monk, 7 originals and 3 folk/blues arrangements for solo guitar, performed in a style Gary refers to as "Big Bill Broonzy meets Thelonious Monk." This combines the right hand guitar style of the rural blues with more angular aspects of Monk's music. Gary's first book "Thelonious Monk for Guitar", published by the Hal Leonard Corp. was released internationally in 1999. The book includes 11 compositions notated for guitar transcribed from the original recordings with specific performance notes for guitarists. There's a listing of recorded sources for each transcription and includes a selected discography. The CD and/or the Book can be ordered directly from Gary through his website. Highly recommended.

	Yes, it's here - the new Thelonious Records website is now open for business. There's lots of information, lots of music and you can order some rare and previously unobtainable performances on CD as well as T-Shirts and other stuff. This is a great new website for Monk fans. You should visit the new website at www.monkzone.com
	A collection of quotations, by and aboutThelonious Monk.
	Interviews, Concert & Club reviews and magazine articles.
	Just what you need for your music room. Introducing three jazz posters from Rosalinda Kolb. Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus & John Coltrane. NEW PRICE - ALL THREE 18" X 24" POSTERS FOR US$15.00 including postage anywhere in the world. Take a closer look
	I've added a few midi files, check out the list - I've put the file sizes and times on the list as well.
	There are several books about Thelonious Monk, as well as many magazine articles. You can read more about the books and magazine articles here.
	14 pianists on why . . . . MONK LIVES ! - from Jazz Times magazine.
Frankie Passions with the Thelonious Monk QuintetThis session has inspired discussion and curiosity since first being discovered. It has appeared twice on record. Its first appearance was on Washington 303, a 78, and its second was on a Spotlite LP anthology of rare bebop vocal tracks published in England, in 1979. Now you can find out more about Frankie Passions. And the good news for collectors of Monk rarities is that Spotlite has now released the "Cool Whalin'" album on CD - Spotlite SPJ-CD 235
	"Jazz offers, encourages, celebrates skills of ear, and brain and heart - not to mention fingers - which our classroom-based, book-and score-bound, sometimes assembly-line-style academic training has, by nature, somewhat overridden." - a quote from an article "Misterioso.edu/essay on the true art" by Bruce Samet. Musicians as well as students and teachers of music will find this an engrossing article, complete with detailed notes and references together with relevant transcriptions from Monk recordings of Misterioso.
	"Does McClintic Sphere in V. Stand for Thelonious Monk?" An essay by Charles Hollander that will interest all you Thomas Pynchon fans.
	Something in Blue - a study of the role of Irony in the Art and Life of Thelonious Monk and Henry Adams - a paper from Ronald Gray. Complete with bibliography.
	Martin Margulis,Ph.D. has written a paper on the effects of Mental Illness on the Creative Genius of Jazz pianists Thelonious Monk and Bud Powell. You can read it here.
	The presskit for the Warner Brothers Movie "Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser", the presskit includes information about the film and the filmmakers, along with a complete list of the music featured in the movie and a great collection of photographs.
	A Thelonious Monk 'Time Line' listing - showing some important dates and recording sessions.
	A list of sleeve or liner notes.The notes are also linked from the individual listings in the discographies.
	Not only lots of pictures and some magazine covers, but also a collection of more than 150 album covers from Riverside, Columbia, Blue Note, Prestige and other labels.
	Kenny Bullock has prepared a complete list of Thelonious Monk compositions together with references to some of Monk's own representative recordings.
	I'm often asked if somebody or other recorded with Monk, so I made a list You may be surprised who's on it, there's even a couple of piano players !
	Jacques Ponzio has sent me a story called "Monk In Paradise" written by Jean Merlin.
	Richard O. Titus has written about an evening with Monk called "Monk's Alley"
	Read a selection of poetry here - Jazz poetry inspired by Thelonious Monk - from Yusef Komunyakaa, Sascha Feinstein and others. Brilliant Corners - A Journal of Jazz & Literature, edited by Sascha Feinstein. Read about shuffle boil, a magazine of poets and music edited by David Meltzer & Steve Dickison
	Thomas Fitterling's book lists a very interesting CD-ROM produced by Word & Vision of Zurich. "Likely to be the first interactive jazz CD-ROM. You enter an imaginary jazz club with Monk playing there. On the wall there are posters on which you can click for all kinds of information about Monk's life, music, recordings and related themes such as 'Monk and the jazz community', and 'New York as the jazz capital of the world'." The project has been approved by Monk's family, and should come to market during 1998. The CD will contain previously unreleased radio broadcasts; live video footage; biographical data and much more. Read more about the CD-Rom here.
	If you want to know more about the life and times of Thelonious Monk - here's a short biography.
Minton's to Re-Open? New York Times article by Alan Feuer.
	For Windows users - a collection of Thelonious Monk wallpaper.