A four-day pop-up digital radio service featuring a range of special programmes with leading artists from the world of jazz together with live coverage of the London Jazz Festival

BBC Music Jazz

Music: Jazz & Blues

BBC Music Jazz - a digital radio pop up station in collaboration with Jazz FM

BBC Music Jazz: Great Lives: Thelonious Monk

Great Lives: Thelonious Monk

BBC Music Jazz - BBC Music Jazz, Great Lives: Thelonious Monk

Hannah Rothschild looks back at the life of jazz musician Thelonious Monk.

Hannah Rothschild champions the life of the jazz musician Thelonious Monk. 

Brilliant, eccentric and one of the true giants of jazz, Monk was an incredible pianist, the composer of jazz standards such as 'Round Midnight', the co-creator of bebop and a close friend of Hannah's great-aunt, the Jazz Baroness Nica Rothschild. 

Matthew Parris chairs as Hannah and music writer Richard Williams chart Monk's progress through the jazz clubs and recording studios of mid-twentieth century New York.

A four-day pop-up digital radio service featuring a range of special programmes with leading artists from the world of jazz together with live coverage of the London Jazz Fesitval

Accessibility links

Programme Index

BBC Music Jazz

Great Lives: Thelonious Monk

Genres

Brand

BBC Music Jazz

About BBC Music Jazz