Jazz Icons Thelonious Monk Live in France 1969 (2011)

In the fall of 1969 the great French bebop pianist Henri Renaud brought Thelonious Monk into a television studio in Paris Just Monk a grand piano and two cameras no audience no sidemen no emcee no clockwatching stage manager no set list no distractions The result was an astonishingly intimate and revealing portrait of a man and his music Monk sits at the piano and plays whatever occurs to him In this case it was nine originals and two of his favorite standards NTSC all region 65 minutes