T.S. Monk Sextet 5/7/11 Woolsey Hall

My dynamic daughter has a dynamic TAG teacher named Marcella Monk Flake. The Monk in her moniker comes from her uncle, Thelonious. As a benefit for 8th grade TAG, T.S. Monk played a benefit at Woolsey Hall for the TAG program. After a warmup by the local H.S. jazz band, Monk's sextet took the stage. Soprano sax, alto sax, trumpet, bass, piano, and Monk on drums breezed through some standards: Song for Ray, Evidence, and Think of One. Must have been great to grow up in a house with a piano and Thelonious. T.S. said that his job was to answer the door when Coltrane, Miles, Diz , and Bird came by....a dream job for a jazz fan.