https://youtu.be/JBEcLxEC7JM?si=73NBYkLbbBrs3zDP

PERSONNEL:

Thelonious Monk - piano
Charlie Rouse - tenor sax
Larry Gales - bass
Ben Riley - drums

Recorded by Radio Canada at Place Des Arts, Montreal, August 21, 1965

Volume 1 of two volumes split between two LPs (Volume 2 LPS-166767), this is Thelonious Monk's complete concert at the Montreal Jazz Festival in August 1965. At the head of his last great quartet featuring Charlie Rouse on tenor sax, Larry Gales on bass and Ben Riley on drums, Thelonious "Sphere" Monk was in top form delivering a strong set of angular tunes including originals such as "Straight No Chaser", "Evidence", "Epistrophy", "Blue Monk" and a rare interpretation of a classic standard, "April in Paris".