"Thelonious Monk once said: 'Weird means something you never heard before. It’s weird until people get around to it. Then it ceases to be weird.' By the time Monk and his quartet strode into the auditorium at Palo Alto High School on October 27, 1968, people hadn’t just gotten around to his oblong, minimalist take on jazz—they’d left it behind. After decades of toiling in New York’s clubs to little outside recognition, Monk had briefly tasted superstardom, culminating in a 1964 Time magazine cover. ... The live album Palo Alto is a grainy snapshot of Monk and his classic quartet taking a break from their two-week stand at San Francisco’s Jazz Workshop to cut loose and get paid. ..."
NY Times: 52 Years Ago, Thelonious Monk Played a High School. Now Everyone Can Hear It. LondonJazz
amazon YouTube: Live At Palo Alto High School, Palo Alto, CA / 1968 1/7
2012 September: Thelonious Monk: Straight No Chaser, 2013 August: Five Spot Café, 2014 February: Thelonious Monk - Genius of Modern Music, Vol. 1, Vol. 2, 2015 February: "Epistrophy" - Thelonious Monk / Kenny Clarke (1941), 2016 November: Underground (1968), 2017 May: The Thelonious Monk Quartet: The Complete Columbia Studio Albums Collection (2012), 2018 May: Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 (2017)
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