condition (records/cover): NM / NM

Gatefold sleeve with original innersleeve.

A Milestone twofer gathering prime Riverside-era Thelonious Monk - part of the label's classic seventies double-LP series that put this catalog back into circulation for a whole new generation, with generous playing time and honest packaging. The Riverside years are the summit for many Monk listeners: the great compositions arriving in their definitive forms, the bands sharpening around him, the world finally starting to catch up with what he had been saying since the forties. Two LPs of the most original piano music of the century, at its source period, in the economical format that built countless collections. The title states a plain fact.