Sample clips of Thelonious Monk compositions: Four in One, Criss-Cross

A 1999 Mike Melillo Trio album, "Bopcentric," includes the above compositions.

"Melillo is a striking pianist, a chameleon who has a Bud Powell touch on a Charlie Parker be bop number, who evokes appropriate echoes of Thelonious Monk".
-- John S. Wilson in The New York Times

From sleeve notes by Orrin Keepnews at

The Thelonious Monk Website:

For many years regarded as an awesome genius, but one whose ideas were too far-out for general consumption, Monk now seems finally to be gaining long-deserved acceptance....  some critics feel that he is becoming (as John S. Wilson has put it) "increasingly lucid."

From The New York Times of August 28, 2002:

John S. Wilson, the first critic to write regularly about jazz and popular music in The New York Times, died yesterday at a nursing home in Princeton, N.J. He was 89 and lived in Princeton.