Palo Alto: Live at Palo Alto High School
by Thelonious Monk
  • Record Label: Impulse!
  • Release Date: Sep 18, 2020
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Universal acclaim - based on 5 Critic Reviews

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  1. The Telegraph (UK)
    Oct 1, 2020
    100
    On this album he is in especially playful and inventive form, perhaps because at a high school gig with no critics around he could afford to take risks. The numbers are nearly all those Monk standards familiar from numerous well-known recordings and endlessly replayed by later pianists, but they are reimagined in ways that make them seem utterly fresh.
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  2. Glide Magazine
    Oct 1, 2020
    80
    It’s refreshing to hear from the icon directly, especially with his quartet in such fine form.
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  3. Paste Magazine
    Oct 1, 2020
    65
    The recording has a dry, boxed-in character that, for better or worse, defines the listening experience. In strictly psychoacoustic terms, the band feels disembodied from the audience, from the room, and from itself.
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