ACTOR Rex Ryan has confirmed he met with gangland figure The Monk for a photoshoot to promote a new run of the one-man show ...

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Robin D.G. Kelley spent 14 years on a new book, which some are calling the definitive work on a jazz legend. In Thelonious Monk: The Life and... In A New Biography, Monk Minus The Myth Biographer ...