From Atet A.D. "Astnote"

No doubt by now you've heard the news of Monk's death. What can one say? No doubt there'll now be outpourings of appreciation, much of it from hitherto silent sources, long overdue. It can never amount to more than too little too late. I'm reminded of how I learned of Duke's death in 1974. I was living up north at the time, in Oakland, and was in the habit of listening to the Berkeley Pacifica station, KPFA. Every weekday morning they had a program called "The Morning Concert," two hours of what's commonly called classical. So exclusively was European and Europe-derived "art music" its regimen that when I turned on the program one morning late in May and heard "Black and Tan Fantasy" I knew it could only mean one thing. Well before the announcer came on and said so I knew Duke was dead

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