Rabble Without A Cause
Wednesday February 22nd, 2012 with Bernard Stepien
Art Blakey all stars including Thelonious Monk, 1972

Producer Georges Wein really believed in Jazz. He organized hundreds of concerts to capacity audiences around the world. Tonight, we will look at one of them recorded at the Monterey Jazz Festival in 1972 that featured an all stars band led by drummer Art Blakey with Roy Eldridge, Al McKibbon, Sonny Stitt, Clark Terry, Kai Winding and especially pianist Thelonious Monk that was here filling the role of a sideman. What a sideman! This supposed to be straight ahead Jazz concert was driving high on energy as if something was on their tail, i.e. Free Jazz.