Description
Tracklist:
A1: Ruby, My Dear
A2: Well, You Needn’t
B1: Don’t Blame Me
B2: Blue Monk
B3: Epistrophy
B4: I Love You Sweetheart Of All My Dreams
U.S. version, compare to [r=15705264].
Issued in gatefold jacket with printed inner sleeve.
Includes 12-page 8″ 8″ booklet with photos, essays and credits, as well a 12-page 5.25″ 8.25″ replica concert program by the Palo Alto High School International Club, and 16.5″ 10.5″ replica concert poster.
Hype sticker affixed to shrink with release catalog number: “Unknown. Unheard. Until Now. Thelonious Monk 1968.”
Issued on reproduction Impulse labels.
Artist on spine, labels: “Thelonious Monk”
Labels:
Impulse! appears on jacket front, spine, labels.
Logos for impulse!, UMe, Verve and Rhythm-A-Ning Entertainment appear on jacket back.
Logos for impulse! and Rhythm-A-Ning Entertainment appear in booklet.
An Impulse! Records release. 2020 Rhythm-A-Ning Entertainment, Inc. under exclusive license to UMG Recordings, Inc.
Distributed by UMG Commercial Services.
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
A few days before the planned release on July 31, 2020, this release was withdrawn due to a legal dispute between Monk’s estate and his previous label.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.
