Salsa Meets Jazz: Monk con Clave New York Performances

At Dizzy’s Club, *Salsa Meets Jazz: Monk con Clave* reframes Thelonious Monk’s angular jazz language through Afro-Caribbean rhythm, placing clave at the center of the arrangement. The featured performers, Salsa Meets Jazz, treat Monk’s themes as durable material for dance-derived phrasing, tumbao, and improvisation without smoothing their edges. Monk has long been a New York touchstone, and this program reads as a local conversation between Harlem modernism and the city’s Latin bandstand tradition. The result suggests how standards survive by changing their time feel.