Thelonious Monk, the Teenage Weirdo, and the Battle Over a Lost Sonic Masterpiece

My new story in Rolling Stone is out now

Hey there. The moment I heard bits of the story behind Thelonious Monk’s Live at Palo Alto, I had to find out more and write about it. It took some time patching it together, as the great stories usually do: meeting with Danny Scher, the Monk family, digging through 1968 yearbooks, and such. The piece is out today in Rolling Stone and Apple News.