“When Thelonious Monk played with a 10-piece band at Town Hall in New York in February 1959, his music acquired new colors… Monk’s music was so personal and so perfect for small groups that the recordings of his large-ensemble collaborations with Overton in 1959 and in 1963, for another concert at Philharmonic Hall, remain underappreciated. But they left a trail that keeps getting longer.”