Palo Alto

2020 Hard Bop

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Tracklist

A1 Ruby, My Dear 7:00
A2 Well, You Needn’t 13:16
B1 Don’t Blame Me 6:36
B2 Blue Monk 14:02
B3 Epistrophy 4:26
B4 I Love You Sweetheart Of All My Dreams 2:02

Musicians

Larry GalesDouble Bass
Ben RileyDrums
DXTMastered By, Producer, Restoration, Edited By (Forensic)
Thelonious MonkPiano
Kevin PrzybylowskiRestoration (Analog Tape)
Charlie RouseTenor Saxophone

Production

Zev FeldmanCo-producer
T.S. MonkExecutive-Producer, Producer
Danny ScherLiner Notes, Producer, Recorded By
Douglas HollowayProducer
Zak Shelby-SzyszkoProducer (Associate)

Also credited. A&R (Administration): Femi Onafowokan, Melody Ewing. A&R (Manager): Natalie Weber. Art Direction (Creative Direction): Ryan Rogers. Design: Ryan Rogers. Coordinator (Production/Release): Eric Neuser, Rafaela Hernández. Executive-Producer: Ken Druker. Lacquer Cut By: Ryan Smith. Liner Notes: Robin D. G. Kelley. Mastered By: Seth Foster. Photography By (Cover, Inside): Larry Fink. Photography By (Inside): Jim Marshall, Lee Tanner, Veryl Oakland.

Release notes

EU pressed version - compare to U.S. version here: .

Recording of a concert at Palo Alto High School, 1968.
Issued in gatefold jacket with printed inner sleeve.

Includes 12-page 8” x 8” booklet with photos, essays and credits, as well a 12-page 5.25” x 8.25” replica concert program by the Palo Alto High School International Club, and 16.5” x 10.5” replica concert poster.

Hype sticker affixed to shrink with release cat. #: “Unknown. Unheard. Until Now. Thelonious Monk 1968.”

Originally scheduled for release on July 31, 2020 but withdrawn due to a legal dispute between Sony Music and Monk’s estate.
Once resolved, the estate announced an offical street date of 18 September, 2020.

NB: On July 30, multiple copies of the European vinyl pressing appeared at the Concerto record store in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and via its affiliated website, Platomania.

B0032181-01 appears on the label.
Rights Societies for single titles on A and B-Side are marked with ASCAP and BMI in the attached booklet.

Worldwide except North America.