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'Palo Alto' captures a band hitting a high note. For one beautiful afternoon, blacks and whites, Palo Alto and East Palo Alto, buried the hatchet and gathered together to hear 'Blue Monk,' 'Well You Needn't,' and 'Don't Blame Me.'" - Excerpt from Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original by Robin Kelley Neither Thelonious nor sixteen-year-old Danny Scher fully grasped what this concert meant for race relations in the area. Monk was called back by thunderous applause to play an encore - a solo piano rendition of 'Sweetheart Of All My Dreams' - and then graciously apologized for not playing another one: 'I gotta play in the city tonight, dig?'. "Monk's quartet gave the racially mixed, near-capacity audience an excellent show. Now available on Vinyl - includes 2 booklets and a poster. This is a recording of that historic event. With many twists and turns along the way and several hundred people in the school's parking lot awaiting Monk's arrival before purchasing tickets, the concert eventually happened and was a triumph in more ways than Monk or Scher could have imagined. After somehow securing Monk's services to perform on Sunday, October 27, Scher initially had trouble selling tickets and convincing people that Monk was even going to show up.
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Danny Scher, a rising junior at Palo Alto High School, had a dream to bring Thelonious Monk to Palo Alto to perform and help bring about racial unity in his community as well as raise funds for his school's International Committee. Palo Alto, a largely white college town in California, was not immune to the events of the day. Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1968, racial tensions across the country rose. Unheard 1968 Palo Alto High School Concert On Vinyl LP!Īfter the assassination of Dr. Typical order times are located within the product description. It is not guaranteed.Ī Special Order item is an item that we do not stock but can order from the manufacturer. When an item is Out Of Stock and we have an estimated date when our stock should arrive, we list that date on our website in the part's description. We do not have a specific date when it will be coming.Īwaiting repress titles are in the process of being repressed by the label. The Preorder can be released anywhere between weeks, months or years from its initial announcement.Īn Out Of Stock item is an item that we normally have available to ship but we are temporarily out of. To release "TBA." This means that release date is yet "To Be Announced". If a projected release date is known, we will include this in the description in red. Typically the label will set a projected release date (that is subject to change). An In Stock item is available to ship normally within 24 business hours.Ī Preorder is an item that has not yet been released.