Thelonious Monk - Live At Palo Alto

Thelonious Monk - Live At Palo AltoFantasic reissue of Monk playing at a California High School in 1968! Gatefold with inserts. From Jazztimes: The back story makes this album irresistible even before youve listened to it: In 1968, a 16 year old jazz fan at Palo Alto High School in California decides to hold a concert in the schools auditorium to raise funds for its International Cluband convinces Thelonious Monks manager that his client should be the headliner. (Not surprisingly, the

Fantasic reissue of Monk playing at a California High School in 1968!

Gatefold with inserts.

From Jazztimes:
The back story makes this album irresistible even before you’ve listened to it: In 1968, a 16-year-old jazz fan at Palo Alto High School in California decides to hold a concert in the school’s auditorium to raise funds for its International Club—and convinces Thelonious Monk’s manager that his client should be the headliner. (Not surprisingly, the student, Danny Scher, would soon become a major force in the live-music production world.) As concert day approaches, one of the school’s janitors, an audio enthusiast, offers to tune the piano in exchange for recording the show, a deal that’s quickly agreed to. On the afternoon of October 27, the Thelonious Monk Quartet gives its only known high-school performance. Afterward, the janitor (his name apparently lost to history, though researchers are no doubt still working on that) hands the young promoter a tape. It goes in a box, where it sits for the next 50 years. When its owner rediscovers it, he contacts Monk’s son T.S., who—first tickled by the story, then impressed by the recording’s quality—sanctions its release.