As part of the Worlds of Difference radio series following global cultural change, Jonathon Miller reports on the rock band The Free Monks -- a group of Greek Orthodox monks who use their music to ...

MonkTime is Leon Lee Dorsey's first album as a leader in twenty years and in this case, patience truly is a virtue: The bassist's tribute to the legendary composer and pianist simultaneously debuts ...

BEMIDJI, Minn. — The Monks’ lead singer and guitarist, Gary Burger, sits at a mixing console in his small home-recording studio near Bemidji. He’s thumbing through 40-year-old black and white ...

Some musical footnotes remain just that for good reason. Rough contemporaries of the recently reunited Sonics, the Monks were a German-managed American band of ex-GIs during the mid-’60s with a ...

Some of Thelonious Monks music is more than 60 years old, but it still has magic properties. It keeps small-group jazz honest: his compositions still contain relevant lessons about melody and harmony, ...

Three decades delayed, a dream has come true for five guys scattered across the country. All are in their 50s, all have commonplace jobs — writer, truck driver, computer programmer — and all knew that ...