Thelonious Monk's Palo Alto: A Conversation With T.S. Monk & Danny Scher at Living Jazz

Call & Response: Monk Talks Monk - T.S. Monk & Danny Scher Hosted by KCSM's Chris Cortez

Saturday, December 12, 5-7pm PST
Featured Guests T.S. Monk and Danny Scher
Moderated by KCSM’s Chris Cortez
The “Palo Alto” record: How a high schooler, a janitor, and Thelonious Monk made local history

Join Living Jazz and KCSM, as legendary jazz promoter Danny Scher and T.S. Monk, son of Thelonius Monk, discuss this historic recording, the circumstances that surrounded it, and the complex journey that took place until the album's recent release on Impulse Records now 52 years later. This evening of conversation will be moderated by KCSM’s Chris Cortez....

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Call & Response: Monk Talks Monk - T.S. Monk & Danny Scher Hosted by KCSM's Chris Cortez

Saturday, December 12, 5-7pm PST
Featured Guests T.S. Monk and Danny Scher
Moderated by KCSM’s Chris Cortez
The “Palo Alto” record: How a high schooler, a janitor, and Thelonious Monk made local history

Join Living Jazz and KCSM, as legendary jazz promoter Danny Scher and T.S. Monk, son of Thelonius Monk, discuss this historic recording, the circumstances that surrounded it, and the complex journey that took place until the album's recent release on Impulse Records now 52 years later. This evening of conversation will be moderated by KCSM’s Chris Cortez.

For Thelonious Monk, 1968 was yet another banner year of featured cover stories and recording for major label Columbia Records. In the midst of those critical accolades during his Columbia years, Monk enjoyed a full schedule of touring dates in such jazz hotbeds as New York and San Francisco. During this time, Monk performed his brilliance as band leader and improvisor in the most unlikely setting: a small-stage 350-seat high school auditorium on a Sunday afternoon in the lily-white bedroom city of Palo Alto on the peninsula south of San Francisco (now part of Silicon Valley). That historic October 27, 1968 concert, produced by teenager Danny Scher, has been released for the first time by Impulse Records as Palo Alto.

You're invited to join the conversation and have a chance to hear selections of this historic recording.

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