Thelonious Monk - Palo AltoPalo Alto is a previously unknown + 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

This record is an encapsulation

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and a band who plays hard but works even harder

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Barwick and Lattimore had struck up a friendship over many years performing live together

The album knows there is no truth

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Alongside French-Caribbean Zouk this kind of music has slowly been making its way into the DJ sets of many of the most open minded selectors around the world

A sinister sonic architecture of drum-machine-music and analogue synthesizers

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