Sold Date: December 20, 2020
Start Date: October 7, 2020
Final Price: $249.95 $175.00 (USD)
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Thelonious Monk Palo Alto TEST PRESSING
Limited to 50 Copies direct from the Thelonious Monk store. Test Pressing comes unsealed in a plain black outer sleeve and a white poly-lined inner.
SOLD OUT SUPER RARE
Please note: LP is not sealed in shrink.  It was received this way from theloniousmonkmusic.com and Hand Drawn Pressing.  It will, however, be shipped in a MOFI resealable sleeve.

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 PERFORM ON SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27, SCHER INITIALLY HAD TROUBLE SELLING TICKETS AND CONVINCING PEOPLE THAT MONK WAS EVEN GOING TO SHOW UP.  WITH MANY TWISTS 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.

TRACKLIST (Recorded by The Staff at Palo Alto High School, Palo Alto, CA | October 27, 1968):

1. RUBY, MY DEAR
2. WELL, YOU NEEDN’T
3. DON’T BLAME ME
4. BLUE MONK
5. EPISTROPHY
6. I LOVE YOU SWEETHEART OF ALL MY DREAMS