Hot Stamper Pressings of the Music of Thelonious Monk Available Now

An outstanding copy we played not long ago had us singing its praises, to wit:

If you want to hear just how good Monk’s big, rich piano can sound, look no further than Straight, No Chaser.

• We like our pianos to sound natural (however one chooses to define the term)
• We like them to be solidly weighted
• We like them to be free of smear, a quality that is rarely mentioned in the audiophile reviews we read

Speaking of warm, rich and smooth, this is important to the horn sound too. Most copies could not make the sax as full-bodied and free of honk as we would have liked.