Artist Spotlights
Clarence Penn
Born 1968. Drummer, composer, and bandleader whose Penn Station quartet reimagined Monk’s music on “Monk: The Lost Files.”
Mentioned in
- 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.