The day the high priest died

[Hardbopjazz]

February 17, 1982, Thelonious Monk died. I remember where I was. I was in a music theory class. My first semester of college. Where were you?

[Gheorghe]

I don´t remember exactly where I was, but it was a terrible blow. The next thing I remember was the album "Sphere", done by Charlie Rouse, Kenny Barron, Buster Williams and Ben Riley and in the liner note they wrote that it was recorded while Monk was at the hospital in coma and that they hoped that someday he might here it, and that they learned about his death after finishing that album.

[John L]

I remember it well. I had been hoping for years that Monk would somehow find the strength to make one more trip to Califorina, but on February 17, 1982 I finally realized that I would never fulfill my dream of seeing Monk live.