Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

* Underground ( Thelonious Monk album ), 1968

Established musicians including Thelonious Monk and Kenny Clarke were also regular participants.

( One occasion, in which he had a near fight with Thelonious Monk during the recording of Bags ' Groove, received wide exposure in the specialized press.

Coltrane, who in the meantime had freed himself from his drug habits, was available after a highly fruitful experience with Thelonious Monk and was hired back, as was Philly Joe Jones.

* Thelonious Monk ( 1917 – 1982 ), jazz pianist and composer

* Monk ( 1954 album ) by Thelonious Monk from Prestige

* Monk ( 1964 album ) by Thelonious Monk from Columbia

* 1917 – Thelonious Monk, American jazz pianist ( d. 1982 )

Thelonious Monk at Minton's Playhouse, New York City, 1947

Bebop techniques grew out of jazz, with leading composers such as Thelonious Monk and Bud Powell.

On October 26, 2008, Paul Allen was given the Herbie Hancock Humanitarian Award from the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz for his " visionary achievements as a businessman and a global philanthropist.

The music of Thelonious Monk became a permanent part of Lacy's repertoire after a stint in the pianist's band, with Monk's songs appearing on virtually every Lacy album and concert program ; Lacy often partnered with trombonist Roswell Rudd in exploring Monk's work.

His most enduring relationship, however, was with the music of Thelonious Monk: he recorded the first album to feature only Monk compositions ( Reflections, Prestige, 1958 ) and briefly played in Monk's band in 1960 and later on Monk's Big Band / Quartet album ( Columbia, 1963 ).

Jazz stars in the 1950s who came into prominence in their genres called Bebop, Hard bop, Cool jazz and the Blues, at this time included Lester Young, Ben Webster, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Art Tatum, Bill Evans, Ahmad Jamal, Oscar Peterson, Gil Evans, Jerry Mulligan, Cannonball Adderley, Stan Getz, Chet Baker, Dave Brubeck, Art Blakey, Max Roach, the Miles Davis Quintet, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles, Sarah Vaughn, Dinah Washington, Nina Simone, and Billie Holiday.

* Thelonious Monk

* October 10 – Thelonious Monk, American jazz pianist ( d. 1982 )

** Thelonious Monk, American jazz pianist ( b. 1917 )

Bebop was the preferred form for younger talent based in New York, such as Charlie Parker or Thelonious Monk who both rarely embraced the Big Band idiom.

The concert made international headlines, led to a Time cover story ( Dave Brubeck and Thelonious Monk are the only other jazz musicians featured on the cover the magazine ), and resulted in an album that would become the best-selling long-playing recording of Ellington's career.

He is one of only five jazz musicians ever to have been featured on the cover of Time ( the other four being Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk, Wynton Marsalis, and Dave Brubeck ).

The more notable artists include Sonny Stitt, Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Tony Bennett, Claude Bolling, Oscar Peterson, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Dick Hyman, Joe Pass, Milt Jackson, Earl Hines, André Previn, World Saxophone Quartet, Ben Webster, Zoot Sims, Kenny Burrell, Lambert, Hendricks and Ross, Martial Solal, Clark Terry and Randy Weston.

** Orrin Keepnews ( producer ) for Thelonious Monk-The Complete Riverside Recordings

** Orrin Keepnews ( notes writer ) for Thelonious Monk-The Complete Riverside Recordings performed by Thelonious Monk

** Orrin Keepnews ( producer ) for Thelonious Monk-The Complete Riverside Recordings

* The Complete Riverside Recordings of Thelonious Monk ( 1991, 15 CD, Riverside )

He appears on the Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane ( Riverside ) record.

* Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane ( Riverside, 1957 )

At that time, her favorite living pianists were Thelonious Monk and Billy Taylor, which helps to explain why, when Riverside producer Chris Albertson approached her about these recordings, her immediate reaction was, " Who's going to listen to that old stuff?

* Thelonious Monk Plays the Music of Duke Ellington with Thelonious Monk, Oscar Pettiford ( 1955 ; Riverside )

In 1955 the Prestige Records contract of Thelonious Monk was bought out and Monk was signed by Riverside, where he remained for the next five years.

* Thelonious Monk-Thelonious in Action ( Riverside, 1958 )

* Thelonious Monk-Misterioso ( Riverside, 1958 )

In 1983, saxophonist Arthur Blythe's album Light Blue: Arthur Blythe Plays Thelonious Monk was released by Columbia Records.

In December 1961, he recorded two albums for Columbia Records under the aegis of Cannonball Adderley: A Portrait of Thelonious ( with Michelot and Clarke ), and A Tribute to Cannonball ( with the addition of Don Byas and Idrees Sulieman — despite the title, Adderley only plays on one alternate take ).

Stitt joined the all-star group Giants of Jazz, which also featured Art Blakey, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Kai Winding and bassist Al McKibbon ) and made albums for Atlantic Records, Concord Records and Emarcy Records.

* Thelonious Monk: Thelonious Monk Trio / Blue Monk ( Prestige Records, 1952 – 54 ); MONK ( OJC, 1953 – 54 )

Inspired by hearing Thelonious Monk's "' Round Midnight ", Russell moved to New York in the early 1940s, where he became a member of a coterie of young innovators who frequented the 55th Street apartment of Gil Evans, a clique which included Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Gerry Mulligan, and John Lewis, later involved with the Modern Jazz Quartet.

Later D. C. jazz musicians included Charlie Rouse ( saxophonist, with Thelonious Monk ), Billy Hart ( drummer ), Ira Sullivan ( tenor saxophonist ) and Leo Parker ( bop baritone saxophonist ).

She has also contributed to other Hal Willner projects, including the song " Misterioso " for the tribute to Thelonious Monk entitled " That's the Way I Feel Now ", which included Johnny Griffin as guest musician on tenor saxophone, and the Willner-directed tribute to Kurt Weill, entitled " Lost in the Stars ", where she and her band contributed an arrangement of the title track, with Phil Woods as guest musician on alto saxophone.

The Giants of Jazz was a jazz all-star group of the 1970s which featured Art Blakey ( drums ), Dizzy Gillespie ( trumpet ), Al McKibbon ( bass ), Thelonious Monk ( piano ), Sonny Stitt ( alto and tenor sax ), and Kai Winding ( trombone ).

On 4 July 1957, Thelonious Monk's quartet featuring John Coltrane on tenor saxophone, Wilbur Ware on bass, and Shadow Wilson on drums began a six month stay at the club.