Education program
Artist Spotlights
Short pieces from the museum’s education program on the artists behind the music, each with recordings to hear for yourself.
Latest spotlights
- Artist Spotlight: Thelonious Monk —
As one story goes, Bud Powell took a police nightstick defending Thelonious Monk, and Monk wrote “In Walked Bud” for his friend. Hear Monk’s 1947 recording beside Clarence Penn’s from 2012.
Artists A–Z
- Thelonious Monk (1917–1982)
- Clarence Penn (Born 1968)
- Bud Powell (1924–1966)