The summer of 1968 looked like the summer of 2020. Americans were in the streets protesting racism, among other things. And a high school student in Palo Alto, Calif., got in on the action by ...

The greatest lost concert in American history almost never happened at all. It was Oct. 27, 1968, in Palo Alto, California. Outside of his high school, Danny Scher, a 16-year-old, bushy-haired, ...

In 1968, high school student Danny Scher asked Thelonious Monk to come to his high school in Palo Alto, California. At the time, Monk was one of the most widely known and influential jazz musicians in ...

In June, Impulse! Records announced the first-ever release of Thelonious Monk’s Palo Alto. The album features a recording of Monk’s historic concert at Palo Alto High School on October 27, 1968, with ...

It would have been Thelonious Monk's 101st birthday this year, but the pianist and composer has not lost his luster over the years. Every year SFJAZZ celebrates his birthday with a concert. Past years ...

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Only with hindsight can it be ascertained that 1959 marked the pinnacle of jazz music as a cultural force in the United States. In 1959, the Mount Rushmore presidents of jazz were recording their ...

It appears purely coincidental that Thelonious Monk’s posthumous Pulitzer Prize for music in 2006 came only two years before Bob Dylan was awarded a Pulitzer of his own. But these two very different ...

In 1968, a teenager convinced Thelonious Monk to play a concert at his high school to ease racial tensions in his community. More than 50 years... A Previously Unreleased Thelonious Monk Concert Is ...

A previously unreleased concert recording of Thelonious Monk from 1968 will be released next month as the album Palo Alto. The summer of 1968 looked like the summer of 2020. Americans were in the ...