PALO ALTO (GATE)

MONK, THELONIOUS

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Ruby, My Dear
Well, You Needn't
Don't Blame Me
Blue Monk
Epistrophy
I Love You Sweetheart Of All My Dreams

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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Originally scheduled for release on July 31, 2020 but withdrawn due to a legal dispute between Sony Music and Monk's estate.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. 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."

Issued on reproduction Impulse labels.

Artist on jacket front: "Monk"

Labels:
Impulse! appears on jacket front, spine, labels.
Logos for UMe, Verve and Rhythm-A-Ning Entertainment, Inc., appear on jacket back.
Logos for Impulse! and Rhythm-A-Ning Entertainment, Inc., appear in booklet.

Recorded by The Staff at Palo Alto High School, Palo Alto, CA | October 27, 1968
Mastered by Seth Foster at Universal Music Mastering Studios, NY and Grand Mixer DXT
Lacquers cut at Sterling Sounds Studios, NJ
Engineered, Sonic Restoration and Forensic Editing by Grand Mixer DXT
Tape transfer done by Sterling Sound Mastering
Analog tape restoration by Kevin Przybylowski at Sonicraft A2DX Lab, Red Bank, NJ

℗© 2020 Rhythm-A-Ning Entertainment, Inc.

A few days before the planned release on July 31, 2020, this release was withdrawn due to a legal dispute between Monk's estate and his previous label. Copies found their way into retail anyway. The new release date was set to Sept. 18, 2020.

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