On January 23rd 1966 at Stanford University's Memorial Auditorium, the Thelonius Monk Quartet and the John Coltrane Octet performed. Canada's Coda jazz magazine reviewed the event at length. It's acknowledged that Trane's time as a regular with Monk was crucial to his growth as a musician and composer. But in the subsequent ten years, it is clear that the two musicians' trajectories were very different. This was the couple of weeks Coltrane spent in California when he supplemented his group further with Juno Lewis on percussion and Donald Garrett on bass. McCoy Tyner had already left and the strain felt by Elvin Jones was apparent. monk and coltrane at stamford (sic) reviewed by Philip Jacka It was beautiful. Simply, this year Stanford University would investigate jazz. The scheme was not dissimilar to that Festival of the Arts which Brandeis University focused on jazz back in 1957 (hear "MODERN JAZZ CONCERT", Columbia WL127, or its twin-pack reissue, ...
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