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This shirt arrived as a promotional item for what was then the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, back in 1997, when Monk would have turned 80. It reminds me of my favorite game, which I can\u2019t play right now, and my favorite musician, who I\u2019m getting to hear anew.<\/p>\n
\u201cPalo Alto<\/a>,\u201d a previously unreleased recording, comes out July 31.<\/p>\n It documents Monk, in 1968, leading his quartet (tenor saxophonist Charlie Rouse, bassist Larry Gales and drummer Ben Riley) at a high school in Palo Alto, California.<\/p>\n I\u2019ll have more to say about it soon in the Wall Street Journal. For now, you can hear a track\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0(just ignore the \u201cvisualizer\u201d).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This shirt arrived as a promotional item for what was then the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, back in 1997, when Monk would have turned 80. It reminds me of my favorite game, which I can\u2019t play right now, and my favorite musician, who I\u2019m getting to hear anew. \u201cPalo Alto,\u201d a previously unreleased recording, … <\/p>\n