One evening in 1948, Orrin Keepnews was invited over to the home of Alfred Lion, the founder of Blue Note records. There, Lion introduced Orrin, a jazz journalist at the time, to Thelonious Monk and played him an advanced test pressing of Monk's first recording for the label. Orrin was astonished by Monk's genius and interviewed him for his Record Chang…
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