Scher’s family home until he contacted Monk’s son - the jazz drummer and bandleader T.S. The “Palo Alto” recording had collected dust in the attic of Mr. Now, 52 years later, Impulse! Records and Legacy Recordings are releasing it as an album called “Palo Alto” that captures the 47-minute concert in full. Scher whether he could record the show if he tuned the piano. There were no plans to preserve the one-off concert, but a school janitor asked Mr. Scher had his older brother Les drive there and pick up the pianist and his band. He was already scheduled to be in the area for a three-week stint at the Jazz Workshop, a club in San Francisco, so Mr. The jazz titan agreed to perform at the school on Sunday, Oct. Monk, a pianist, was more than a decade past his most famous recordings and near the end of an unfruitful run at Columbia Records when his manager got the request from Mr. After many twists and turns, the triumphantly successful concert eventually happened. Danny Scher, a junior at the high school, had a dream to have Thelonious Monk perform and help bring about racial unity the community while raising funds for the International Committee. Palo Alto, a largely white college town in Cali, wasn't immune. in 1968, racial tensions across the country rose.
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