AP - Even though this recording dates back nearly half a century, for jazz fans it's the year's most important new release the equivalent of finding a Rembrandt masterpiece hidden away in a cluttered attic. Its release comes just months after Larry Appelbaum, a supervisor and jazz specialist at the Library of Congress, discovered a set of tapes labeled "sp. Event 11/29/57 carnegie jazz concert (#1)," including one marked "T. Monk," while in the process of digitally preserving the Library's huge collection of Voice of America recordings.{br}{br}
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