Name: Palo Alto
Brand: Thelonious Monk

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

711285

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2020-09-18

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Universal

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

0602507112851

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

711284

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black

0602507112844

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Thelonious Monk

Genre GB

Jazz

Label GB

Impulse!

<i>Palo Alto</i> is a previously unknown and unreleased live Thelonious Monk recording. After the assassination of Dr.Martin Luther King,Jr. in 1968, racial tensions across the country rose. Palo Alto, a largely white college town in California, was not immune to the events of the day. Danny Scher, a rising junior at Palo Alto High School, had a dream to bring Thelonious Monk to Palo Alto to perform and help bring about racial unity in his community as well as raise funds for his school’s International Committee. After somehow securing Monk’s services to performon Sunday, October 27, Scher initially had trouble selling tickets and convincing people that Monk was even going to show up. With man ytwists and turns along the way and several hundred people waiting in the school’s parking lot to await Monk’s arrival before purchasing tickets, the concert eventually happened and was a triumph in more ways that Monk or Scher could have imagined. This is a recording of that historic concert. Theband is Thelonious Monk - piano, Charlie Rouse – tenor saxophone, Larry Gales – bass and Ben Riley – drums.

Palo Alto

Music GB