Monk and his orchestra performed these live recordings from a town hall concert in 1959. As always, the bop sound is pristine and absolutely brilliant with the most notables being Monk's Mood and Little Rootie Tootie.
Stan Getz's life in jazz was amazingly long and prodigiously prolific: Over the course of forty-nine years as a professional, he performed in every major jazz idiom - from Dixieland to swing to bebop to free jazz. Though he is most famous for "The Girl From Ipanema," Stan Getz wa...